Category: Yangtze River

Investigative Reporter Reveals CCP’s Legacy of Environmental Destruction in China

October 29, 2022
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During the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) 20th national congress, China’s ruling regime claimed that they have been more effective in managing the environment over the past decade, citing official data. However, a Chinese investigative journalist revealed that the deterioration of the environment in mainland China is shocking and may not recover for decades. Zhai Qing,…

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China Issues First National Drought Alert of the Year

August 19, 2022
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SHANGHAI—The Chinese regime has issued its first national drought alert of the year. The national “yellow alert,” issued late on Thursday, comes after regions from Sichuan in the southwest to Shanghai in the Yangtze delta have experienced weeks of intense heat. The alert is two notches short of the most serious warning on Beijing’s scale….

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China Cuts Power to Factories, Homes as Reservoirs Fall

August 19, 2022
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BEIJING—Factories in China’s southwest have shut down and a city imposed rolling blackouts after reservoirs to generate hydropower ran low in a worsening drought, adding to economic strains. Companies in Sichuan province including makers of solar panels, cement, and urea closed or reduced production after they were ordered to ration power for up to five…

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China’s Use of Antibiotics in Manufacturing Harming Health and the Environment

March 7, 2022
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Chinese manufacturers produce over 200,000 tons of antibiotics each year for use by the pharmaceutical, healthcare, agriculture, and aquaculture industries. While antibiotics are essential, effluent from the manufacturing factories and overuse in China are polluting the environment, causing antibiotic resistance, and endangering people’s lives. One of the more serious outcomes of China’s massive use of…

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China Insider: Yangtze River Dries up as Dams Worsen the Impact of Drought

March 24, 2021
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Wuhan, capital city of central China’s Hubei Province, is nicknamed the “City of Yangtze” because it is the biggest city in the middle reach of the Yangtze River and situated at the confluence of the Yangtze and Han Rivers, one of eight major tributaries. That explains why when a video showing a dried-up section of…

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