A tailings pond lies on the west of the Chinese city Baotou, one filled with a black grey sludge of toxic and radioactive material.
"We asked them to give us something to filter it but they didn't," she says before the officials cut her off.
The village was moved about five miles away - a relatively newly built residential compound. Fields farmed for generations swapped for high rises."It's unsuitable for living anymore," he says."It's polluted by the tailings pond of Baotou Steel company. People got sick. So many.""Generally, I think, the life here is not as good as before in the village," he says."We don't get used to the current lives in buildings.
"There are much wider scale impacts in the region that results from several decades of large-scale industrial extraction and processing. And these are mainly soil pollution, water pollution and detrimental effects not just for people, but also for livestock, animals, vegetation, fishery resources and what have you.
Since 2009, China has changed tack, putting more emphasis on cleaning up the pollution, and focusing on the"high quality" development.
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