Factories and manufacturing facilities discharge toxic industrial waste that pollutes. Many a time, the pollutant water is released into a large water body without being properly treated. This often leads to large-scale destruction of life because there are many micro and macro organisms living there. People in China protested against a company that would have caused major pollution in the environment. Their protest became successful, and the government had to scrap the proposal.
All this began on 28 July 2012. The government had proposed a waste-water pipeline in the Chinese city of Qidong. The pipeline was part of a paper factory owned by Japan’s Oji Paper Company. The pipeline would have dumped industrial wastewater into the sea. The Qidong protest was an environmental protest against this proposal and its certain catastrophic results.
People in thousands, came out of their homes demanding the cancellation of the project, citing environmental concerns. The protesters raided government offices as an estimated 1,000 people went on the rampage, overturning vehicles, and forcing the city’s mayor to strip off his shirt. The protesters then made him wear a T-shirt with protest messages.
The protests ended after the government promised to suspend the project permanently.
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