Tag Archives: PX

Ningbo will ‘resolutely not have the PX project’

Unmentioned in almost every other newspaper in the country, but right in the middle of the front page of the Ningbo Daily (宁波日报) today is a brief announcement: Ningbo will resolutely not have the PX project. After protests all of last week against an expansion project … Continue reading

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NIMBY protest hits Chengdu

Protests against a PetroChina plant in Chengdu.

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Danwei Picks: Odd kababs

Xiamen PX redux; happenings in Tibet; Air New Zealand pays different rates; AIDS kababs.

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Danwei Picks: Lei Feng!

Lei Feng day; Yanhuang Chunqiu lauded, then swept aside; inflation; new intellectuals; new PX protests; government bureaucracy consolidation.

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Danwei Picks: another sort of PX protest

MLB to come to China; PX workers protest the plant move; Gan Xiao’er’s religious film-making.

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Danwei Picks: 2008-01-02

Fi Jianfeng on organized crime in Tangshan, Gillian Gibbons to come to China, and Jonathan Ansfield looks at the players in the Xiamen PX affair.

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Danwei Picks: 2007-12-21

SCMP gets bought out, Washington Monthly looks at Yangtze River water use, and Southern Weekly goes behind the scenes of the PX public hearings.

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Citizens air opinions on the Xiamen PX project

A hearing in Xiamen for the Xianglu PX project (翔鹭石化) brings out opposition voices.

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Official media on popular opinion in the Xiamen PX affair

China Newsweek (中国新闻周刊) weighs in on the use of SMS and online media in the Xiamen PX case.

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