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China: PX moves to Zhangzhou

Tuesday, March 4th, 2008 @ 06:38 UTC

by Oiwan Lam

Countries:: China
Topics:: Freedom of Speech, Development, Environment, Protest
Languages:: Chinese

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jp:: 中国：PX計画、漳州へ...

The Xiamen chemical factory project has moved to Zhangzhou because of citizen protest. Wang Ning finds out[zh] that there are also protests in Zhangzhou, but the information has been repressed. So far he only managed to find one blog [zh] and an overseas report [zh] on the anti PX protest.

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