in the Yangtze River Delta, Pearl River Delta, located in a variety of textile and garment processing characteristic town. Was such a small town known as the "fashion capital", the people still think of Paris, Milan, Florence.
16 years ago, Dong Yaoming (a pseudonym) often to hometown this road called the Dongjiang River swimming. But since a Hongkong boss opened the biggest dyeing factory here, the water began to slowly degenerate. Now, Xintang rely on fishing for a living person almost disappeared.
staff in Da Dun Zhen Xintang Cun a polluted drainage ditch mud sample. Villagers here say, pollution is serious, the river became poisonous water, foul odor, if accidentally come into contact with the skin will itch or ulceration.
Xintang professional town as jeans, let a person as the acme of perfection scale. The town a total of cowboy clothing production and related enterprises 4766, accounting for 80% of the total number of town enterprises. The annual output of cowboy clothing 300000000, driven 220000 people in employment. 60% of the national cowboy clothing from Xintang,http://www.aignerconstruction.com/images/_vti_log/gekiyasu-shop-t-48.html http://www.aignerconstruction.com/images/_vti_log/gekiyasu-shop-t-48.html, 30% from Xintang cowboy clothing export, the products are exported to dozens of countries and regions.
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The environment
and the factory where the strokes into workers, do not sign a contract, there is no guarantee.
how many kinds of harmful substances will damage the body, no one told Yang Ming, which adds to his fear.
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at the feet of Dong Yaoming, the Pearl River tributaries -- Dongjiang is slowly flowing, close to the river water has become black, with these dark current, is a strange smell. Under the scorching sun,http://bsteinacker.com/galleries/adidas-shoes-outlet-10002.html http://bsteinacker.com/galleries/adidas-shoes-outlet-10002.html, Dong Yaoming is wearing a pair of dark sun glasses, he was pointing at me carrying a satellite map said: "this is certainly in the water washing (dyeing) around the factory. In addition to those dyed denim factory, other parts of the platoon does not give such dirty water. After color dyeing sewage directly discharged into the East River."
Greenpeace
came to Xintang, only to find, it with true "fashion capital" and far from, be threatened by growing crises: rising raw materials, capital and weakness, rising labor costs, lack of low design level of brand awareness of enterprises, and, more seriously, the local environmental cost is too heavy. Pay it all let the town teeter. And these, it is a microcosm of the entire China textile manufacturing industry.
from the waste water from factories is full of jeans cloth, wrapped around the pipeline valve. A lot of washing and bleaching plant sewage directly discharged into the ditch, and finally into the Dongjiang river. While the Dongjiang River is the source of drinking water for millions of people in Guangzhou.
he said washing plant, is one of Xintang's most important industry on the East River, it is part of Xintang developed denim industry. In fact, the small town of Xintang, is the China's largest denim production base in China (Guangzhou) Xintang International Jeans day >
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