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As “part of China,” we Hong Kongers have seen how China’s economic growth has contributed to the degradation of its environment. To be fair, Hong Kong’s economic takeoff had already harmed its environment before China took over the city. We witnessed all our beautiful beaches becoming polluted. The (...)
On China’s Engine of Environmental Collapse. By: Richard Smith. Pluto Press, 2020, 320 pp.
As “part of China,” we Hong Kongers have seen how China’s economic growth has contributed to the degradation of its environment. To be fair, Hong Kong’s economic takeoff had already harmed its environment (...)
Richard Smith argues that a democratically planned and managed ecosocialist economy is the only way to save the planet
Empty high-speed trains, collapsing apartments and bridges, industrial explosions, tsunamis of plastic waste, and a Shanghai inevitably underwater—this is not the image the (...)
This is an abridged translation of an article that originally appeared in the Charity Times (公益时报).
On the eve of the year of the rooster, two Chinese environmental NGOs ran into trouble after initiating an environmental public interest lawsuit.
On January 25th, the Jiangsu Intermediate People’s (...)
Research puts air pollution on a par with smoking as threat to human health.
Smog is related to nearly one-third of deaths in China, putting it on a par with smoking as a threat to health, according to an academic paper based on the study of air pollution and mortality data in 74 cities and (...)
Just in the last month there have been two cases of environmental protests occurring in China. Around one thousand people protested on the streets of Yangjiang city, in Guangdong province, against the construction of an incinerator. And ten thousand people protested against a chemical factory (...)
He Zuoxiu, a leading Chinese scientist, says the country is not investing enough in safety controls after lifting of post-Fukushima disaster reactor ban.
China’s plans for a rapid expansion of nuclear power plants are “insane” because the country is not investing enough in safety controls, a (...)
Resistance to rapid industrialization and encroachment by poisonous industries has led to pitched battles between residents and police in many cities.
In spite of a media blackout, protests in the Chinese city of Maoming against a PX (paraxylene) plant have proceeded for the past week. Last (...)
China’s rulers have traditionally derived their legitimacy from controlling water. The country ranks only sixth in terms of annual river runoff, but counts half the planet’s large dams within its borders. A new report warns that dam building has brought China’s river ecosystems to the point of (...)
Locals report smoke billowing up from the plant’s chimney, which was shut down after 10,000 people took to the streets.
A controversial chemical plant in north-east China is believed to have quietly resumed production just months after officials promised to halt operations and move the (...)
White-collar demonstration in Dalian is one of largest in recent years to target potential polluters.
Tens of thousands of protesters marched through the streets of Dalian on Sunday to demand the relocation of a chemical plant that has been constructed on the coast of the port city in (...)
Beijing-based journalist, David Yang recently investigated the case of a battery factory worker in the northeastern province of Jilin who was diagnosed with acute lead poisoning and renal failure but could not get adequate compensation because the authorities, apparently in collusion with his (...)
Six worker suicides in less than five months have put the management of Taiwan-based company Foxconn under a microscope again after another of its employees jumped from a building and died Tuesday in Shenzhen, Guangdong Province.
The six suicides and two-failed suicide attempts so far this (...)
By Li Xinran Source: Shanghai Daily. 2009-9-18
HUNDREDS of residents in a township in east China’s Fujian Province gathered in front of the local government offices yesterday afternoon to protest a factory they believe caused lead poisoning in several children.
The demonstration took place in (...)
Neighbours of rogue chemical plant realised too late it was going to kill them
By He Huifeng
The people of Shuangqiao in Hunan knew they had been deceived about the factory that went up near their homes five years ago. Those who went to work there found it was not processing animal feed, as (...)
INTERNATIONAL WORKERS’ MEMORIAL DAY 2009 Updates on Gold Peak, Maersk and Asbestos campaigning
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Overview of OSH in China
Memorial Day is not officially recognised in Hong Kong, Macau or China. In mainland China, health and safety on the ground remains a matter of serous concern for (...)
“The fields are few, but the sea is vast. So men have made fields from the sea”. —Qing dynasty gazetteer
THEY are there as night falls, and your car lights pick them up as you speed along the coast on a new and excitingly empty motorway: clusters of ragged people who have clambered up through (...)
China’s ecological movement is led from the top down, Hong Dayong’s The Growing Nongovernment Forces for Environmental Protection in China shows. Wu Jian wonders when the grassroots will grow up. The Growing Nongovernment Forces for Environmental Protection in China Hong Dayong and others China (...)
The recent infant milk formula scandal in China, in which at least four babies have died and over 50,000 have become sick due to poisoning with the industrial chemical melamine, highlights the way capitalism cannot guarantee the health and well being of people — particularly the most vulnerable. (...)
Footnotes were missing on the version of this paper posted on Focus’ website...
"In 20 years China has achieved economic results that took a century to attain in the west. But we have also concentrated a century’s worth of environmental issues in those 20 years”. These words are not coming from (...)
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