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Archive Home > 2008 > May > 06 > Chinese protest new chemical plant

Chinese protest new chemical plant

Demonstration latest example of increase in middle-class activism

By Edward Wong / The Bulletin
May 6, 2008

BEIJING — Residents took to the streets of a provincial capital over the weekend to protest a multibillion-dollar petrochemical plant backed by China’s leading state-run oil company, in the latest instance of popular discontent over an environmental threat in a major....

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