{"id":28382,"date":"2012-07-03T17:20:00","date_gmt":"2012-07-03T17:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1:10081\/?p=28382 "},"modified":"2012-07-03T17:20:00","modified_gmt":"2012-07-03T17:20:00","slug":"28382-revision-v1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/?p=28382","title":{"rendered":"Sichuan Protesters Thwart Planned Alloy Plant"},"content":{"rendered":"
(Reuters) – A Chinese city scrapped plans for a copper alloy plant on Tuesday after three days of protests by residents who feared it would poison them, in the latest unrest spurred by environmental concerns in the world’s second-largest economy.<\/span><\/div>
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The government of Shifang in the southwest Sichuan province, which initially said it would only suspend the project by Shanghai-listed Sichuan Hongda, caved in to pressure and announced the project would be stopped.<\/span><\/div>
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“The molybdenum-copper alloy factory will no longer be built in Shifang city,” it said in a statement on its official Sina Weibo microblogging site.<\/span><\/div>
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“At present, the … mass incident has basically be bought under control, and the majority of people have dispersed,” it added, using a common government term for protests.<\/span><\/div>
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Protests turned violent on Monday when tens of thousands of residents stormed the city government headquarters, smashed police cars and clashed with thousands of anti-riot police, according to Hong Kong media.<\/span><\/div>
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“We have so many people in Shifang. We aren’t afraid of them (the authorities),” an 18-year-old saleswoman, who declined to be identified, told Reuters by telephone from Shifang before the government announcement. “The Shifang people will definitely not surrender.<\/span><\/div>
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She accused the police of beating protesters on Monday night. Police were not immediately available for comment.<\/span><\/div>
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Chinese environmental campaigners have successfully challenged a number of industrial projects in recent years.<\/span><\/div>
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Activists have repeatedly called for greater public consultation in the tightly controlled one-party state where leaders are obsessed with maintaining stability while fostering economic growth.<\/span><\/div>
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<div>After three days of protests the government of the Chinese city of Shifang cancelled plans to build a copper alloy plant in the town. &nbsp;Residents feared toxins created in the process of producing the alloy would be a danger to their health. &nbsp;<\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ChinaHumanRights","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28382\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}