Chinese state media release a map showing the spread of ‘cancer villages’. According to the Beijing Times, the Ministry of Environmental Protection recently published the ‘Twelfth Five-Year Plan for Prevention and Control of Environmental Risks from Chemicals.’ Among its content is a clear demonstration that because of chemical poisoning, ‘cancer villages’ and other serious [threats to] social health have begun to emerge in many areas.
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A traveller detailed the “acrid odors from three chemical plants” and
“the yellowish waste that flowed in their irrigation canals.”
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The World Health Organization expects cancer rates in China to grow by 78 percent by 2030, a product of growing affluence and changing lifestyles.
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