‘Cancer Villages’ in China Acknowledged by Regime
A woman washes a duck which she is preparing for Lunar New Year dinner in Zisiqiao village in China’s eastern Zhejiang Province on Feb. 8, 2013. (Peter Parks/AFP/Getty Images)
The Chinese regime for the first time admitted the existence of so-called “cancer villages”—areas near factories and polluted waterways where cancer rates have increased to startlingly high levels.
The Sina Weibo of the state-run Global Times on Wednesday published news and a map of the villages that are especially cancer-stricken. Posting in Chinese, the Times, a mouthpiece of the ruling Chinese Communist Party, cited the Chinese Ministry of Environmental Protection. The blog Tea Leaf Nation brought attention to the post.
“Among its content is a clear demonstration that because of chemical poisoning, ‘cancer villages’ and other serious [threats to] social health have begun to emerge in many areas. Moreover, according to media person Deng Fei, these … ‘cancer villages’ are spreading from the middle of Eastern China to the middle of Western China,” a translation of the Global Times message reads.
The message was published in environment ministry’s “Twelfth Five-Year Plan for Prevention and Control of Environmental Risks from Chemicals,” the post reads. And the Global Times’ microblogging account also included a weeping emoticon.
Over the years, Chinese environmental activists have said there is a strong link between increased cancer rates and industrial pollution—in part due to corrupt officials looking the other way when developers and businesses violate environmental regulations. Investigative journalist Deng Fei in 2009 showed some of the worst-hit areas using Google maps.
Since the 1990s, cancer has been the leading killer of Chinese people, according to Caijing, a financial publication. It reported that the number of cancer villages could be greater than 247 across 27 provinces. However that number could be greater than 400, according to the state mouthpiece Xinhua.
The ministry also acknowledged that China has been slammed with “poisonous and harmful chemical products” that are banned in developed countries, reported the AFP news agency.
Environmental lawyer Wang Canfa said the Global Times’ blog posting was significant, as it was the first time that the Chinese regime officially noted the “cancer village” phenomenon.
The Weibo posting comes just after several high-profile cases involving air and water pollution. In January, a thick haze of smog descended upon dozens of Chinese cities, including Beijing, lingering for days.“It shows that the environment ministry has acknowledged that pollution has led to people getting cancer,” he was quoted as saying. “It shows that this issue, of environmental pollution leading to health damages, has drawn attention.” The AFP reported that the term “cancer village” appeared as early as 1998 in Chinese media reports.
Around a week ago, Deng Fei asked his Weibo followers to take pictures of a river or a stream in their hometown and post it online. The move, he said, was designed to show the extent of pollution in Chinese rivers.
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When they are done destroying there country they are not to concerned, They will just invade our’s and a few others
The Plantagenets waged the Opium Wars against the Chinese, colonizing and enslaving them in their country and in Europe and america.
We have cancer villages and cancer allies here too. They have existed for years. Just ask anyone living near the almost 40,000 oil platforms in the Gulf of Mexico…and throughout the Gulf Region.
So just how many villages are located in the middle of the Gulf of Mexico.
Dear China Regime,
Why do you think that American Companies wanted and made plans to make friends with you? Was it for your culture? NO! Was it for your intellect? NO! Was it really to spread Democracy? NO! American Politicians and Companies wanted to move their POLLUTING companies to a country where they didn’t care about environmental issues. They wanted a government that would NOT CARE about the health effects their polluting would have on PEOPLE. They wanted to be able to run and pollute in a country where they would not have to take responsibility for the DAMAGE that running their companies would cause. So, you are now the highest polluting nation of the world. And, your people and environment will suffer long time.
Yes evil Americans. No you idiot, businesses make money and governments protect and promote their people.EXCEPT in communist dictatorships where the people can go screw if it is good for the masses.
Dear Anonymous,
You are aware that the “China Regime” is not reading dumb*ss comments on BIN?
Also, what a great plan you outlined there! Let’s pollute the hell out of china, while messing up our economy! The citizens of the USA won’t mind, because they are lazy and do not like working, so that settles it!
American companies want cheap products from China. So, companies in China make cheap products for them using recycle materials. The root cause is the US government themselves unable to manage economies well incurring trillion dollar debt. So, the Americans are poorer and poorer everyday as Federal Reserve keeps on printing US dollar without limit. Hyperinflation is company and US dollar is dead!
You are exactly right.
Since the ayatollah barack has allowed our debt to this country to escalate so drastically, i would not be surprised that the healthy Chinese will be flocking to America on the miles and miles of our American soil that he has given to them for payment of the debt. Once the cancer riddled patients have died in their own country they can clean up and fill with healthy souls again. Nothing good will come of this – nothing.
Although there are cancer villages, the are also 30 longevity villages in China. Is there one longevity village in North America? We see North America especially the US has hundreds of nuclear reactors around the country while there are thousands fast food outlets which provide carcinogenic and health damaging food like the french fries, processed meat of burger and hot dog.