Chinese Farmers in Dispute With Factory
SHENGZHOU, China - Farmers had long feared the runoff from the pharmaceutical factory. It turned irrigation water to a greasy, red sludge and stunted vegetable crops. They blamed it for a local rise in cancer and birth defects. Fear, defiance stalk China factory protest town
XINCHANG, China - Xiao Chen can see no way out but to keep up the struggle. Four years after a pharmaceutical plant opened in his small town in the rich eastern Chinese province of Zhejiang, he is fed up with the pollution he says it is spewing out, poisoning the river and stunting his crops. Angry Chinese farmers force closure of plant
BEIJING - Chinese farmers have attacked a pharmaceutical plant and forced it to close, angered that its chemical waste was ruining their village's crops, polluting its river and harming their health, officials and residents said.
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