{"id":65174,"date":"2016-07-04T21:08:00","date_gmt":"2016-07-04T21:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1:10081\/?p=65174 "},"modified":"2016-07-04T21:08:00","modified_gmt":"2016-07-04T21:08:00","slug":"65174-revision-v1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/?p=65174","title":{"rendered":"China incinerator plans lead thousands to protest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">3 July 2016<\/span><\/p>  <p>&nbsp;<\/p>  <p>&nbsp;<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mzzg.org\/UploadCenter\/ArticlePics\/2016\/26\/201675_90274329_lubuprotest.jpg\" alt=\"201675_90274329_lubuprotest.jpg (660&#215;371)\" \/><\/p>  <p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">lines of riot police surrounded by residents on a street in China, received by BBC Chinese on 03\/07\/2016Image copyrightBBC CHINESE\/ ANONYMOUS USER<\/span><\/p>  <p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Image caption<\/span><\/p>  <p>&nbsp;<\/p>  <p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">The authorities said residents tried to break in to government offices<\/span><\/p>  <p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Thousands of people in southern China have turned out in an unusually large protest against plans for a new incinerator.<\/span><\/p>  <p>&nbsp;<\/p>  <p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Witnesses said at least 3,000 officers were in Lubu on Sunday as a protest of 10,000 people turned violent and some demonstrators tried to break in to government offices.<\/span><\/p>  <p>&nbsp;<\/p>  <p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">But the authorities said there were just 1,400 protesters at most.<\/span><\/p>  <p>&nbsp;<\/p>  <p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">They said 21 people who &#8220;led the trouble&#8221; were taken away by police.<\/span><\/p>  <p>&nbsp;<\/p>  <p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Authorities also said police were injured but did not say how many, or how seriously.<\/span><\/p>  <p>&nbsp;<\/p>  <p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">One witness told the BBC a police officer was seriously injured while two civilians suffered head injuries.<\/span><\/p>  <p>&nbsp;<\/p>  <p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">The incinerator, which would generate power as well as burning waste, is scheduled to be built near the Xi River, the area&#8217;s main water source.<\/span><\/p>  <p>&nbsp;<\/p>  <p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">One resident who gave only her surname, Lin, told the Associated Press agency: &#8220;We worry about air and water pollution.<\/span><\/p>  <p>&nbsp;<\/p>  <p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">&#8220;The river is a major source of our drinking water.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>  <p>&nbsp;<\/p>  <p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Residents said they took to the streets spontaneously after Lubu&#8217;s town government announced the project was being halted. No reason was given for the delay, which residents worried would be only temporary.<\/span><\/p>  <p>&nbsp;<\/p>  <p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">In a post on social media, the Communist Party propaganda department for the district wrote that &#8220;some ordinary people who are unaware of the truth led by some troublemakers attempted to storm the Lubu town government&#8221;.<\/span><\/p>  <p>&nbsp;<\/p>  <p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">It said that those who had attacked police officers should surrender themselves, while people inside the government offices should leave immediately.<\/span><\/p>  <p>&nbsp;<\/p>  <p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">More than 70,000 people live in Lubu, which is in Guangdong province. A resident told the BBC that further protests are planned for Monday, but will not be as well attended because many people work outside the town.<\/span><\/p>  <p>&nbsp;<\/p>  <p>&nbsp;<\/p>  <p><br \/><\/p>  <p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-asia-china-36698719\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">For detail please visit here<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&lt;p&gt;Witnesses said at least 3,000 officers were in Lubu on Sunday as a protest of 10,000 people turned violent and some demonstrators tried to break in to government offices.&lt;\/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;But the authorities said there were just 1,400 protesters at most.They said 21 people who &quot;led the trouble&quot; were taken away by police.&lt;\/p&gt;<\/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-65174","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\/65174","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=65174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65174\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}