Cancer Villages - China

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The Chinese government claims it's making serious efforts to clean up pollution. But as this horrifying report shows, much of their 'success' has involved simply moving their toxic industries out of sight.

"It's risky, but we have no other choice: We only have this river," Wu Zhuliang tell us from his remote farm in South Western China. For Wu and his family their reliance on the river, which runs yellow with pollution, has had terrible consequences. They buried his son just over a month ago. He had been diagnosed with two types of cancer, Leukaemia and Thymoma, and had been in so much pain he said to his mother, "open the window and I'll jump out". The water from Wu's river was found to have levels of chromium, a known carcinogen, "200 times higher than the national standard". Ma Tianjie from Greenpeace tells us it's so toxic that, "simply touching the water, it could make your skin itchy. It's a very, very serious problem." All across rural China the same stories abound. The government is cleaning up the cities, but often the most toxic industries are simply moved to rural areas where regulations are lax. Chinese farmers are now four times more likely to die from liver cancer than the global average. "The government is trying to find a way to get rid of this huge pile of historically accumulated waste but they are struggling."

A Film By SBS
Distributed By Journeyman Pictures
June 2012

• Category

  News & Politics

[Dikotomii D]

They need to bomb that damn factory.

[angrybirdsforever]

Fuck off fool.

[chlaebrig]

humanity has to completely rethink it's way to produce and consume things.

[hod05]

you come here to advertise a site that profits from and takes advantage of cancer patients and discourages them from getting real help! what a despicable scam

[Gustav Heinemann]

Von den paar Plastiksäckchen die dort herum liegen, und dem bisschen Chemie im Fluss  wird doch keiner krank. Das ist doch reine Panikmache, gell.

[Craftingcandies]

It so sad how the government does nothing about it, here in canada we have hydraulic fracturing issues with the natives and many of them get cancer too. Justice is needed for all of those who die from cancer because of idiotic government decision.

[lu lin]

and also,they got the passports to fleet any time they want,if their corruption being unvealed  or something like that

[lu lin]

no,they just don't give a fuck,the governors' families can enjoy their lives ,getting food differ from chinese citizens ,i mean ,their food and commodities was brought abroad,polluted-free

[lu lin]

fucking chinese government

[theunholysoul]

LOL!!! You are full of shit!!!!! F Off!