{"id":47822,"date":"2015-06-27T22:19:00","date_gmt":"2015-06-27T22:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1:10081\/?p=47822 "},"modified":"2015-06-27T22:19:00","modified_gmt":"2015-06-27T22:19:00","slug":"47822-revision-v1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/?p=47822","title":{"rendered":"No Sign of Early End to Shanghai Protest Over Planned PX Plant"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Shanghai residents protest plans to relocate a PX plant to the city’s Jinshan district, June 25, 2015.<\/div>
Photo courtesy of an RFA listener<\/div>
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Tens of thousands of people have taken to the streets of Shanghai this week, as protests against proposals to relocate a paraxylene (PX) plant to the city’s Jinshan district showed no signs of abating amid calls for a larger protest this weekend.<\/div>
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Photos of Friday’s protest taken from above showed the crowd stretching two or three blocks, while others showed protesters carrying banners through the lamp-lit streets that read: “Give us back our Jinshan! Protect the environment! Stay away from pollution!”<\/div>
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One photo showed a close-packed crowd marching down a street by night, carrying a red banner, part of which read: “Stay away from cancer!”<\/div>
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“This has been going on for five days now, and I am guessing that there are about 50,000 people here today, even more than yesterday, when there were about 40,000,” a Shanghai resident who declined to be named told RFA.<\/div>
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The protests have continued since Monday, in spite of assurances by the Jinshan authorities that no PX plant is planned for Jinshan, which is already home to a chemical industrial park.<\/div>
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Protesters believe that the authorities are planning to relocate an existing PX plant from the Gaoqiao industrial park to Jinshan.<\/div>
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Friday’s protest appeared to go off peacefully, with some police officers visible in photographs, but no clashes, according to the Shanghai resident.<\/div>
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“We are walking very peacefully … Everyone is here to protect their own rights and interests,” the resident told RFA.<\/div>
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“The most important thing is to protect the environment, so we don’t want the government to bring this project here.”<\/div>
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Workers, children join march<\/div>
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Video of Thursday’s protest obtained by RFA showed a large crowd of thousands, including schoolchildren, marching with banners and shouting “Give us back our Jinshan,” accompanied by groups of people riding scooters.<\/div>
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Others chanted: “Go Jinshan!” The crowd marched to the Jinshan district government offices, accompanied but not stopped by police, before marching around adjacent streets, protesters said.<\/div>
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