Protest Over Chemical Plant Shows Growing Pressure on China From Citizens

"By official estimates, 12,000 demonstrators marched in Dalian — by other estimates, many more — to demand the removal of the expensive new Fujia chemical factory, whose Pacific coast sea wall had been breached a week earlier in a typhoon. The plant makes paraxylene, a toxic chemical used to make polyester products. It can cause illness and, if concentrated, death."


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http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/16/world/asia/16dalian.html?_r=1