Stir Fried China

Yesterday in Longyan in Fujian Province, another rash of lead poisoning cases in children was reported. The 120 cases reported in Longyan come after nearly 2400 children in total were sickened in similar incidents in Hunan and Shaanxi within the last month and a half. Most of the children poisoned came from households very near to the factories that were the cause of the poisoning, some only a few hundred meters away. Continue reading “Bringing out the Lead (Poisoning) – China needs strict rural zoning now”

A Xinjiang restaurant blew up in Xinjiekou in Beijing yesterday. The official report is that a gas canister exploded, and even through this accident comes at an inauspicious time (the ongoing unrest in Xinjiang plus the PRC’s 60th anniversity celebration next week a few miles from where the restaurant used to be), I see no reason to doubt that this was anything other than the accident that it has been claimed to be. Continue reading “Why aren’t there more fires in China?”