Meilin Village, Yongning Township, Shishi City, Fujian Province
Before walking into Meilin Village, Yongning Township, Shishi City, in September 2013, the fishing village had been shrouded in stench for more than 10 years.
Worse than the stench was cancer. In fact, when the first light of the 21st century shone into this fishing village, almost every year someone in the village suffered or died of cancer. 2008 to the present, this fishing village with more than 4,600 villagers, the number of people suffering from cancer amounted to 49, of which 35 died.
The scourge continues, as five or six more villagers have been diagnosed with cancer in the village, bringing the number of villagers known to be suffering from cancer to 14, nine of whom are under the age of 50.
Shaoxing County, Shaoxing City, Zhejiang Province
Publicly available information shows that there are 164 textile industry clusters in China***, with more than 50,000 textile factories, mainly concentrated in the eastern and southeastern coastal areas. Shaoxing County, Shaoxing City, is one of them, where there are more than 9,000 textile enterprises, printing and dyeing production capacity of about 30% of the country, and therefore also known as "built on cloth city.
However, this GDP credits on the book of the great but turned into a water township of the culprits, in the planning area of 100 square kilometers of Shaoxing Binhai Industrial Zone and the surrounding area has been a number of "cancer villages" appeared.
Not Shaoxing a city in the groaning, also fell into the ecological refugees adjacent to the Hangzhou Xiaoshan Linjiang Industrial Park and the surrounding villagers, where the same concentration of textile and its related chemical enterprises.
Shaoxing Binhai Industrial Park sewage outfall further east, Shaoxing Shangyu City, Dao Hui Town, many villagers have also reflected that they have a "cancer village". Wherever chemical companies open, "cancer villages" seem to appear.
To the east of Shangyu, in the Cixi area of Ningbo, an industrial park has been expanding with the completion of the Hangzhou Bay Bridge, and a special printing and dyeing area has been formed. Feedback from the public there is that seafood production has been cut and tastes worse because of pollutant emissions, and people are worried about following in the footsteps of those upstream.
Wuli Village, Xiaoshan District, Hangzhou City
It took less than 20 years for Wuli Village in Xiaoshan District, Hangzhou City, to go from being an enviable rural village with beautiful scenery to a "cancer village" where girls talk about getting married.
Wu Li Village*** has more than 1,000 villagers, with the expansion of urbanization, and gradually mixed with the nearby Ochishan Street, according to official information, is located in the village of Docking Nanyang Economic and Technological Development Zone was established in October 1992, 1994 was approved as a provincial development zone. It can be said that the nightmare of Wuli Village began there, with at least 20 chemical companies, covering printing and dyeing, pharmaceuticals and other chemical fields, moving into the industrial park one after another.
Hangzhou Xiaoshan District, Hongshan Village
For the term "cancer village", Hongshan Village, which is a little farther away from Wuli Village, has been recognized as the "leader" of the cancer villages, although officials have also so far refused to admit that it is a "cancer village". The "cancer village" claim is also not recognized by officials.
The cancer rate in Hongshan Village is even higher than that of Wuli Village, and the reason for this is very alarming to the villagers -- because the village is far away from the chemical zone, and in the 1990s, when Wuli villagers were struggling with the pollution problem, the villagers of Hongshan Village felt that the environmental pollution didn't affect them, and therefore ate the water from wells and watered their rice and vegetables from the inland waterways as usual. The water from the river was used to irrigate rice and vegetables, and the harvested crops were consumed by the family. Until around 2008, Hongshan Village was connected to the tap water, but it was too late, "I didn't realize at that time, but now we are in the high cancer period." Shao Guantong smiled bitterly, "Luckily, our docking village made a fuss early, otherwise the cancer has to be more serious than now."
Further investigation by Xinmin Weekly found that there are many "cancer villages" like Wuli Village and Hongshan Village in Xiaoshan Linjiang Industrial Park and the surrounding Dangwan Town. According to the requirements of the environmental protection department, the park's industrial sewage centralized to Xiaoshan Linjiang sewage treatment plant, the sewage treatment plant also handles the sewage of 11 surrounding townships.
Sanjiang Village, Shaoxing, Zhejiang Province
Sanjiang Village, Shaoxing, is a "well-known" high "cancer village", of course, the local government does not recognize this statement. Sanjiang Village is almost a replica of Wuli Village, where water, soil and air are polluted because of the presence of printing and dyeing and other chemical companies, and where young people are fleeing, while foreign workers and local elderly people are staying.
Lin Zhangmu, a 66-year-old village doctor, insisted on volunteering at a small clinic in the village after his retirement, because he has accumulated considerable experience in contact with more cancer patients, and in some suspicious cases, he directly suggested that the patient's family be sent to a major hospital for oncology examinations. This village of more than 5,000 people as far as he knows at least 80 people have died of cancer, "there are many more I do not know, the villagers say this is a cancer village."
Shaoxing, Zhejiang Province, the new second village
Following the coastal road to continue deeper into the industrial park, printing and dyeing enterprises more, the most representative of the new second village is surrounded by a thick chemical smell, but the villagers have been accustomed to, do not smell out. The river around the new village has been polluted by industrial sewage, becoming toxic water in the eyes of the villagers, "a hand will get a rash".
May 8, 2012, because of the Binhai Industrial Park, a printing and dyeing plant pipeline burst, the new second village of a 300 to 400-meter-long river was instantly dyed red "river of blood", two days before fading.
Today's residents of the village are mainly foreign workers, and the villagers, Guo said the village is also considered a "cancer village," with polluted surface water and undrinkable groundwater, and the villagers are worried about the water.
Hezitou Village, Shangzhou District, Shangluo City, Shaanxi Province
Hezitou Village, Shangluo City, Shaanxi Province, is located in the triangle where the South Qin River meets the Dan River. The water supply in the village is that it is regularly supplied every day and sometimes cut off. The villagers' own well is about 6 meters deep, but the water quality is turbid. According to the village branch secretary He Zhihua, "the most serious time, Hezitou village field crops can not survive, the water from their own wells, even the livestock are not willing to drink. At that time, planting vegetables and other things can not be planted, are dead, the roots rotted. City CDC, District Environmental Protection Bureau have come to take water samples, but do not know what the results are.
Luliang County, Qujing, Yunnan
May 2007 to July 2011 period, Luliang County Health Bureau has repeatedly organized the County CDC, County Health Supervision Bureau, Xiaobaidu Town Health Center staff concerned, Xiaobaidu Town Xinglong Village Committee residents of the health of retrospective epidemiological surveys and the development of public **** health services.
In terms of public **** health services, during 2010-2011, **** medical checkups were conducted for 132 people over the age of 65, 29 people were managed by the maternal system, 234 people were examined by children, and 3,724 people (including out-of-towners) had their health information collected. Of the village's 3,563 people, 208 were hypertensive, 28 had type II diabetes, and 8 were seriously mentally ill.
The person in charge of the Luliang County Information Office confirmed that during the nine years from 2002 to 2010, residents of Xinglong Village were diagnosed with malignant neoplastic diseases by hospitals at the county level and above the county level in 14 cases, 11 of which have died.
January 1, 2008 to December 31, 2010, Xinglong Village Council, the death of the registered population of 86 people, of which 50 men and 36 women. The mortality rate was 6.50 per thousand in 2008, 9.28 per thousand in 2009 and 8.42 per thousand in 2010. And Xiaobaido Town Xiaobaido Village Committee (township seat) in 2008, 2009, 2010, respectively, reported the number of deaths of 28, 30, 33 people, the mortality rate of 8.5 ‰, 9.2 ‰, 10.3 ‰, respectively.
Shangbao Village, Dainan Town, Xinghua, Jiangsu Province
According to incomplete statistics, in the town of Dainan, Xinghua, over the past two to three years, there have been 60 to 70 people suffering from cancer, a significant portion of the patients have unfortunately died. The villagers had mistakenly thought that it was feng shui, Shi Fort villagers high incidence of cancer phenomenon, the village west of the Fort West Zhuang old man blamed it on "the destruction of feng shui".
Dozens of heavy metal enterprises surrounded Shi Fort village is the main reason
In the investigation of the heavy metal enterprises surrounded Shi Fort village, found that a number of small scrap metal business owners, directly back to the acquisition of scrap metal piled up in the streets and alleys of Shi Fort village, and some villagers know that the water quality of the Xitangkou River is contaminated, and still in the water to wash vegetables, panning rice, washing clothes. He Mou (a pseudonym) is also a local scrap stainless steel workshop owners, referring to the high incidence of cancer in the villagers of Shibao village, he had no qualms about claiming that he and dozens of other business owners, Shibao village environmental pollution can not be shirked responsibility.
Yangzhou City, Daiyi Town, Hangji Village
Hangji Village is located in Yangzhou City, Jiangsu Province, Yizheng City, Daiyi Town, there are 932 households, 3,058 people. In recent years, there have been a particularly large number of cancer patients, with esophageal cancer and liver cancer being the main diseases, and there are about 20 people in the village. According to the investigation, it is said to be the well water of some residents' homes, the permanganate index and ammonia nitrogen index exceeded the standard.
Zhenjiang City, Dantu District
(Gaoqiao Town, Gaoqiao Village, Huang Hui Town, Tumen Village, etc.)
Because of the pollution of the water system, only in the district hospitals admitted patients with malignant tumors from 1997 onwards showed a significant increase in the trend of 71% is from the more economically developed southeastern towns and villages in the region.
Huang Mengying Village, Shenqiu County, Henan Province
Location:Huang Mengying Village is located in Shenqiu County, Henan Province, and has 726 households and 2,471 people.
Environment: Huang Mengying Village, Zhouying Township, Shenqiu County, Henan Province, sits right on the banks of the Shaying River, the largest tributary of the Huaihe River, which has decimated the villagers of Huang Mengying due to severe water pollution. Since about ten years ago, this beautiful village has been gradually shrouded by the shadow of various diseases induced by water pollution. Huang Mengying village village of more than 2,400 people, 80% of the young adults suffering from perennial enteritis, the majority of couples of childbearing age to lose the ability to bear children, negative population growth; deformed children, dementia is common, more than 10 years did not send a qualified soldier; a family of more than two cancer patients in more than 20 families, two families died of cancer into the extinction of the family, the village has become a real The village has become a real "cancer village". Huang Mengying village there are many disabilities and other difficult illnesses patients, only blind, deaf and mute, limb disabilities, there are 41 people. Polluted Shaying River, the surface of the water floating white foam, the water is black, the stench is suffocating, students must wear masks in class, playing a dozen meters deep wells, smelling a strange smell, drinking a bitter taste, the residents on both sides of the drinking water is extremely difficult.
The main pollutants in the Shaying River water are hydrogen sulfide and dioxin. Hydrogen sulfide is a toxic asphyxiating gas, and dioxin is extremely carcinogenic and lethal. Water pollution is the root cause of the cancer epidemic in Huangmengying Village. Water quality monitoring shows that the water quality of the Shaying River is inferior to Category V water, which has no more utilization value, and can neither be used for industry nor for agricultural irrigation, let alone as a source of public **** drinking water. In the Huaihe River Basin, a widely circulated song, sung by the children of the Huaihe River in the heart of the cone of pain: "the fifties panning rice and washing vegetables, the sixties laundry irrigation, the seventies water quality corruption, the eighties fish and shrimp extinction, the nineties diarrhea cancer ......". This is what a sad extemporization!
Type of disease: esophageal cancer, stomach cancer, intestinal cancer, liver cancer, lung cancer.
Consequences: the prevalence of cancer among villagers is significantly high, and cancer deaths are also increasing year by year. 105 people died of cancer in the village during the 14-year period, accounting for 51.5% of the total number of deaths, most of which were around 50 years of age, with the youngest being just 1 year old.
Bei Lao Guan Zui Village, Joon County
Location: 1,274 people in Joon County, Henan Province.
Environment: The village is located along the Wei River, the upper reaches of the Wei River, paper-making enterprises had reached 142 Xinxiang City, Jiaozuo City, more than 60, and 17 slip County, the vast majority of which are small enterprises, some of which discharged industrial wastewater does not meet the standards, and some have no sewage purification equipment at all, and whose effluent leads to serious pollution of the Wei River. The pollution load caused by these enterprises accounts for more than 80% of the local. Flow through the village of North Old Guanzui Wei River water black in red, floating on the surface of a layer of white foam, 100 meters away from the smell of a strange odor, but also mixed with the fishy smell, when the day is hot, the whole village is fishy smell. Villagers home well water turbid, but also floating black, yellow particles, fishy smell pungent.
Types of disease: esophageal cancer, stomach cancer, lymphoma, lung cancer, liver cancer, uterine cancer, intestinal cancer.
Consequences: 112 people died of cancer over a 10-year period, accounting for 90 percent of all deaths in the village. More than 50 percent of the cancer deaths were of people under 50 years old. As a result of the long-term use of polluted water, the land became more alkaline and sclerotic, and food production declined; pigs raised by the villagers could only grow to more than 50 kilograms, and most of them suffered from rotting hooves.
Lvdian Township, Xiping County
Location: Located in Xiping County, Henan Province, there are eight "cancer villages" along the Hong River.
Environment: The Hong River, which is contaminated with poor quality water of category 5, flows through Lvdian Township, and about 4 kilometers upstream of the river where the water is polluted black is the Dangangang City paper company Haiming Group Limited Liability Company, and about 1.5 kilometers upstream of the river where the water is contaminated yellow is the Doyang County Huayu Cement Limited Liability Company, and the Dangang County Sanlihe Paper Factory also discharges water into the river. Villagers home 30 meters deep well water and fishy smell, boiling water floating soap bubble-like white foam, filtered and then boiled to drink. Here the drinking water nitrite nitrogen exceeded the times are more than 54.5 times!
Type of disease: laryngeal cancer, lung cancer, liver cancer, stomach cancer and so on.
Consequences: during the 10 years, eight villages *** death of 1838 people, the average annual mortality rate of 9.7%. The average annual mortality rate was 9.7%, much higher than the national mortality rate; and the mortality rate was on the rise year by year, reaching 12.2% in 2005. The age of the dead is concentrated between 45 and 70 years old. Villagers along the river use the river water to irrigate their farmland, causing large-scale die-off of crops such as tobacco, wheat and corn, and every year the township suffers from water pollution of crops amounting to more than 50,000 mu, with direct economic losses amounting to more than 10 million yuan.
Changyuan County, Changcun Township, the former Sun Dong Village
Serious water pollution has led to dozens of deaths from cancer in five years, fish and shrimp in the river are extinct, and the river can not irrigate farmland.
Eight townships along the Le'an River in Jingdezhen, Jiangxi Province
Locality: Located in the city of Jingdezhen, Jiangxi Province, the Le'an River flows through eight townships in the city.
Environment: the river water has more than 20 kinds of harmful pollutants seriously exceeded the standard, hundreds of thousands of acres of good land along the eight townships deserted, and there are more than 10 "cancer village". Drinking water testing of coastal residents, iron, manganese, carbon and ammonia concentrations exceeded the value of 7.4 times, 18.8 times and 3.8 times.
Type of disease: esophageal cancer, liver cancer.
Consequences: Dai Village in Mingkou Township was the worst affected, with four to five people, mostly young people, dying of esophageal and liver cancer every year since the 1980s.
Huangxi Reclamation Farm, Wangcheng Township, Xinjian County, Nanchang City
Sewage leaking from the chemical plant flowed into the rice fields, dyeing all the rice seedlings in the fields black. in 2004, nearly 20 people from 80 families suffered from cancer, mainly throat and lung cancer.
Yushan County Rock Rui Town Guanshanqiao Village
The six lime kilns near the village spewed ash powder and soot outside all year round, causing more than 100 acres of grain fields in Guanshanqiao Village to reduce yields, and a layer of white ash on the leaves of vegetables even on rainy days. More than 10 people in the group of more than 60 households have died of cancer in recent years.
Yugan County, the new township of cypress leaf room village
Drinking water containing mercury exceeded the standard by more than three times, more than 10 years to take 45 lives, and more than 20 other people so dementia become disabled, is the country's famous "cancer village".
Guangmenqiao Village, Pengxi County, Suining City, Sichuan Province
Location: Pengxi County, Suining City, Sichuan Province, with 370 households and about 1,400 people.
Environment: The city and county health departments attributed the cause to contaminated water sources and excessive food pesticides.
Disease: stomach cancer, esophageal cancer, oral cancer.
Consequences: During the 13 years, nearly 40 people suffered from cancer, with an average of more than three deaths per year, and 90 percent of those who got cancer were over 50 years old.
Jianyang City, Jane Town, Minwang Village
Because of the chemical plant without any treatment of industrial and domestic wastewater flowed into the Tuojiang River, resulting in the content of nitrate ammonia in the water over the national regulations on the discharge of 30 times the original is known as the "longevity of the village", an average of five deaths due to cancer each year in recent years.
Xiangfan City, Hubei Province, Zhuji Town Zhaiwan Village
By the White River water pollution, ten years due to cancer deaths of nearly 100 villagers, and there are a number of households are husband and wife succumbed to cancer deaths. Especially in the past three years, Zhaiwan village cancer mortality rate of up to 400 per 100,000 or so, much higher than the national average. The environmental protection department monitoring, found that the villagers well water contains hexavalent chromium, benzene and toluene and other carcinogenic substances. Chen Huanzhao, president of Hubei Cancer Hospital, believes that the high incidence of cancer in Zhaiwan Village is directly related to the villagers' long-term consumption of polluted water.
Qutan Village, Tongyang Town, Tongshan County
On August 30, 2010, the following website published the following news: 37 people died of cancer in 16 years in Tongshan, Hubei Province, suspected to be related to the pollution of the dump. Please use Baidu to search. The actual situation is even worse: There are about 1,600 people in Qutan Village, Tongyang Town, Tongshan County, Hubei Province, and 37 villagers have died of cancer in the 10 years from 2000 to the present. In the last year, four more villagers have been found to have cancer. There is no chemical factory near the village, and the black water from the dump flows down a small ditch in the mountains to the village. Now the county government is taking a tough stance because many years ago, the village committee signed a contract with the county government and other relevant departments to dump garbage at Liangtingling, an area attached to Qutan Village, without any treatment facilities, and each year the departments compensated the village committee with a certain amount of money, but the villagers never knew of the existence of such a contract, nor did they know where the money had gone. The former village secretary, who also died of cancer, now lives in the county town, not inside the village, and comes to the village to work during the day on weekdays and returns to his residence in the county town after work.
Shaojiadian Village, Feicheng City, Shandong Province
Locality: Located in Feicheng City, Shandong Province, with 1,000 to 2,000 people.
Environment: The Dawen River, which flows through Xiaojiadian Village, has some counties and cities upstream that concentrate on paper-making, printing and dyeing, chemicals, machinery, metallurgy, mining, steel, electricity, brewing, food processing, textiles, pesticides and coal; Feicheng City where Xiaojiadian Village is located also focuses on the development of coal-mining, coking, paper-making and brewing enterprises. And these enterprises to the Dawen River sewage, resulting in serious pollution of the river, many sections of the river water quality perennial is the most seriously polluted inferior 5, which, strong carcinogens nitrite serious exceeded the standard, manganese exceeded the standard by 57 times. Soil, vegetables are contaminated by highly toxic elements, including wheat chromium content exceeds the standard 1.7 times, cabbage lead exceeds the standard 2 times, spinach cadmium exceeds the standard 9 times, chromium exceeds the standard 12 times, lettuce leaves cadmium exceeds the standard 2 times, chromium exceeds the standard 4 times.
Disease: stomach cancer, esophageal cancer, liver cancer.
Consequences: 56 deaths due to cancer in 4 years.
Front Lv Village, Huafeng Town, Ningyang County
And then there was that one place, he was in Front Lv Village, Huafeng Town, Ningyang County, Shandong Province. There are chemical factories, pesticide factories, and fertilizer factories in that county, and the cancer rate of the people there is very, very high. In Qianlv, a small village with a population of more than 2,000, hundreds of people have died in the past few years. Such figures can not cause the attention of various departments, I really do not know there is no for those poor people to do the Lord's people ````````````````
Laizhou City
Laizhou City, Haicang Village, Haicang Village, Haicang three villages, Lijia Village and other villages in the incidence of cancer in the normal level of a number of times more than the cancer patients admitted to these villages in recent years has increased significantly, is a typical "cancer village", the village is a typical "cancer village". It is a typical "cancer village".
In May 2009, Laizhou City, Shandong Province, was officially named "China's Hometown of Longevity" by the Chinese Society of Gerontology, which is China's tenth and the first city in Shandong Province to receive this honor, and also the first hometown of longevity in the northern region of China. Now the increasingly serious chemical pollution in the local part of the village has become a "cancer village", many cancer patients with life warning of the deterioration of the ecological environment of the south coast of Laizhou Bay. In the face of an interview, the chairman of the sewage company said the villagers were "fussing and talking irresponsibly".
Zouping County Jiudu Town
Zouping, Shandong Province, is one of the top 100 counties in China in terms of basic competitiveness of the county economy, and on the other hand, it is a cancer village shrouded in poisonous gas, with a shocking list of cancer deaths and the current state of water pollution. Local air wafting pungent sour and spicy flavor, cancer death list outflow, factory emissions of sewage gas has reached the limit of tolerance of local villagers, the villagers said angrily, if there are explosives will hold explosives to blow up the Kaiyuan Chemical.
In fact, the status quo of Limin Village in Jiudu Town is not an isolated case. Shandong Provincial Environmental Protection Office, there are 14 have the use of no anti-seepage measures or anti-seepage measures imperfect ditches, pits and ponds storage, discharge of wastewater and other environmental violations.
The 14 companies include: Zibo City, Huantai County, Guoli Town, Shen family small chemical plant, Zibo City, Huantai County, Guoli Town, Kang family small chemical plant, Weifang City, Gaomi City, Song Shuxin small plating plant, Weifang City, Gaomi City, Jinxiang Knitting Factory, Weifang City, Gaomi City, Huasheng Knitting Factory, Liaocheng City, Chiping County, Xinfa Huayu Alumina Co.
Baotou Taolahai, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region
The cancer mortality rate was 70.9 percent after hospital diagnosis. Public information shows that the region's groundwater dissolved solids, sulfate, total hardness, chloride exceeded the standard 3.8, 9.9, 4.9, 0.8 times in turn, belonging to the inferior five categories of water. The investigation found that the cancer originated from the radioactive toxic water pollution of Baotou Steel. Tailings dam water leakage, but also make the surrounding village land can not grow crops. more than 10 years 77 people died of cancer.
Zengfeng Village, Caojing Town, Jinshan District, Shanghai
Shanghai Jinshan District, Shanghai-Hangzhou Highway, Caojing Town, Zengfeng Village, Group 1 Lot.
Since 2003, a large open-air garbage dump has been built along the beach, with no garbage disposal measures and completely exposed. The nearest nearby residents are 500 meters away from the dump in a straight line, and even villagers several kilometers away can smell the stench every day.
Since 2006 to the end of 2008, Zengfeng village 1 group, 2 groups, 13 groups, 15 groups. In just three years, the number of people who died of cancer reached more than 30. This has never happened before in Zengfeng Village since it was founded.
The current compensation for villagers from the landfill is 3 yuan per person per day in July, August and September, and 2 yuan per day for the rest of the year, which is less than 900 a year.
The villagers agreed: the compensation of money, is absolutely can not change the garbage pollution, stench, groundwater contamination, the villagers caused by the physical and mental infringement.
The end of 2007, the villagers had collectively blocked the dump dumping, in the district letters and visits to the Office of the director of the Lu beat his chest to ensure that in October 08, the dump relocation of the case, did not continue to block. But now has 09 March, see another half a year past, but things have not been resolved.
Additionally, environmental pollution in the Songjiang area of Shanghai has a great deal to do with local plastic processing companies. The specific solution, not very clear.
Shangba Village, Wengyuan County, Guangdong Province
Region: located in Wengyuan County, Guangdong Province, with 3,265 people.
Environment: Since the mining of the Dabao Mountain Mine, a large amount of mine washing wastewater containing cadmium, lead, chromium and many other heavy metals has been discharged into the Hengshi River, which flows through the village of Shangba, without any treatment; because of the lack of effective treatment, the complete oxidation of the topsoil of the mine pit produces 207 kilograms of concentrated sulphuric acid per tonne plus a large amount of heavy metals that are lost with the soil, polluting the water body. No living organisms were found in 1.5 kilometers of the Hengshi River, and the ecosystem in the water has not recovered until 50 kilometers downstream.
Type of disease: esophageal cancer, stomach cancer, liver cancer.
Consequences: villagers' daily intake of cadmium alone through their diet is 178 micrograms, 3.6 times the standard set by the World Health Organization. Since the early 1980s, 210 people in the village*** have died of cancer, and the cancer incidence rate is more than nine times the national average.
Liu Kuangzhuang Village and Xiditou Village, Xiditou Town, Beichen District, Tianjin City
Location:Located in Xiditou Town, Beichen District, Tianjin City, it used to be a far-famed fish and rice town.
Environment: The two villages are surrounded by more than 90 chemical factories of various types, such as chemical preparations, dye intermediates, paints and coatings, pesticides and veterinary medicines, flavors and fragrances. These chemical factories are producing day and night, creating black smoke, sewage, odor, noise, especially the toxic and harmful chemical wastewater directly from the factory transferred to the village side of the river, the sewage culvert buried in the vegetable fields, so that a large area of vegetable fields on both sides of the water storage canal originally used for irrigation is also all full of red, black and yellow chemical residue. Local water sources volatile phenols, fluoride, total bacteria and other four indicators failed, including volatile phenols, fluoride are toxic substances; chemical plant atmospheric emissions odor concentration random sampling for all over the national standard 12 times.
Type of disease: lung cancer, stomach cancer, etc..
Consequences: Of the 190 villagers surveyed, 148 suffered from constant headaches and nausea, and 39 often suffered from respiratory diseases such as asthma and bronchitis. In a few years, more than 200 people in the two villages have died of cancer, the vast majority of which is lung cancer. High-density emissions of wastewater and exhaust from chemical plants have left the ground barren of grass, the air filled with dust and stench, and no one buys the radishes, cabbages and fruits that villagers grow because of the pollution.
Fei Long Village, Longshi Town, Hechuan, Chongqing
Location: located in Longshi Town, Hechuan, Chongqing, with about 500 people in the sixth and seventh villagers' groups.
Environment: the situation is unknown.
Disease: liver cancer, esophageal cancer, rectal cancer, lung cancer and leukemia.
Consequences: a sudden increase in cancer patients since 2001. In the following three years, 17 cancer patients were detected and 14 died.
Hebei Province
Geography: Shibu County is located in Hebei Province and includes the towns of Guxin, Shentou and Jingdian, with a population of about 20,000 people.
Environment: In the 1980s, the villages and towns of Shibi County ran numerous caustic soda factories, powdered ash factories, and paper mills. in the 1990s, the local government relocated and closed down all of these small, polluting factories, but the incidence of cancer is still not under control
Types of disease: esophageal, stomach, and cardia cancers
Consequences: Every year, about 1,000 people have esophageal cancer and other malignant tumors Surgery; at least 50% to 60% of the annual deaths are patients with esophageal cancer and stomach cancer. The national mortality rate of esophageal cancer is 10.02/100,000, and the county reaches 244/100,000, and individual villages and towns reach 1004/100,000.
Yangzhuang Township, Suzhou City, Anhui Province
Locality: Located in Suzhou City, Anhui Province, the township has 16 administrative villages close to the Kui River.
Environment: The Qui River flows through Yangzhuang Township, a tributary of the Huaihe River, which tumbles with white foam and emits a pungent stench. The new wells in villagers' homes have a smell when water is pumped up. In the past, people in the village bathed and swam in the Kui River, but no one went there again after the 1960s and 1970s; there were fish and water plants in the river, but now there is nothing. There were originally 20,000 acres of rice paddies here, but because of the pollution rice could not be sold, and now farmers have to switch to corn and beans.
Type of disease: liver and lung cancer.
Consequences: In a village of more than 1,000 people, an average of about 10 deaths from cancer a year.
Liuzhuang, Shitai Township, Duji District, Huaibei City
Famous as a "cancer village", 66 people have died of cancer in recent years. In recent years, 66 people have died of cancer, and the water in the area is "yellow like cow urine," which is known as "deadly water".
Longling Village, Guapo Township, Huaxian County, Shaanxi Province
Region: Located in Guapo Township, Huaxian County, Shaanxi Province, with 30 households and 154 people.
Environment: 4 kilometers away to the northwest of Longling Village is the Shaanxi Fertilizer Factory and Compound Fertilizer Factory, and the northwest wind blows pollutants spread by the factories to Longling Village. Locally produced flour lead content exceeds the national standard 1.6 times is heavy pollution, chromium exceeds the national standard 2.98 times is serious pollution; celery cadmium, lead, mercury, arsenic, chromium are over the standard, of which mercury is 16 times higher than the national standard, lead is 83.5 times higher than the national standard is a special level of pollution; traditional Chinese medicine Chaihu cadmium, lead, mercury, arsenic, chromium are over the standard, of which lead is 91.5 times higher than the national standard; bean curd leaves in lead Lead in bean curd leaves is 91.5 times higher than the national standard; 191 times higher than the national standard; chromium in walnuts is 2.9 times higher than the national standard; lead in rapeseed is 75 times higher than the national standard. The village's cultivated and non-cultivated land, as well as indoor land, is contaminated with lead, chromium, arsenic, copper, zinc and nickel.
Type of disease: esophageal cancer.
Consequences: testing the hair of all villagers was heavily contaminated with lead, arsenic, manganese, and phosphorus. 36 people in the village died of cancer, accounting for 61% of all deaths.