Tainted Harvest: An e360 Special Report/Part I China’s Dirty Pollution Secret: The Boom Poisoned Its Soil and Crops

30/06/14
Author: 
He Guangwei
Wu Di The farmlands surrounding this tile factory in Dingshu are no longer suitable for growing crops because of heavy metal contamination.

Three decades of rapid economic development in China has left a troubling legacy – widespread soil pollution that has contaminated food crops and jeopardized public health. Although they once labeled soil data a “state secret,” Chinese officials are slowly beginning to acknowledge this grave problem.
The first in a series.

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