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China Fluorine Chemical Industry Analysis to 2015 in New Research Report
Fluorine chemical industry treats fluorite as main raw material, with downstream products embracing inorganic fluoride and organic fluoride. China’s recoverable reserves of fluorite merely accounts for about one-tenth of the world total, but the output occupies the first position with a proportion of more than 50%. Since 2010, China has tightened control over fluorite mining […]
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Will China’s Trade Agenda Squeeze Fluorspar Supply?
One of the world’s leading experts on industrial chemicals explains the convoluted market for fluorspar, a component of many household products. In this interview with The Critical Metals Report, IHS Chemical’s Ray Will explains how a rebound of the global supply of fluorspar is tied to the fluctuating trade agenda of the mineral’s largest consumer, […]
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Foreign Journalists Kidnapped and Threatened With Death in China
A German film crew was recently attacked and held hostage in China for being ‘foreign spies’. Their crime? Reporting on pollution at a Do-Flouride factory (1).The act of Chinese nationals, kidnapping and then beating a foreign crew, show not only an increase in the xenophobia and intolerance of foreigners on Chinese soil (2), but also […]
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China plans to have a 5 megawatt Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactor in 2015
The China Academy of Sciences in January 2011 launched a program of R&D on thorium-breeding molten-salt reactors (Th-MSR or TMSR), otherwise known as Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactor (LFTR), claiming to have the world’s largest national effort on these and hoping to obtain full intellectual property rights on the technology. A 5 MWe MSR is apparently […]
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China to eliminate endemic diseases in 5 yrs
BEIJING – China will establish a long-term working system to prevent and cure endemic diseases in key areas, according to a plan jointly issued by the Ministry of Health, National Development and Reform Commission and the Ministry of Finance. The plan said that China will continue to work on eliminating iodine deficiency in 90 percent […]
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Hebei Province: 3.48 million rural residents get access to safe drinking water
More than 3.48 million people in rural areas of north China’s Hebei Province have been given access to safe drinking water this year, a local official said Saturday. Authorities in the province have invested more than 1.7 billion yuan (270 million U.S. dollars) so far in 2011 in building drinking water infrastructure, said Liang Jianyi, […]
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China shuts solar plant after violent protests
China shut down a solar panel factory on Monday after hundreds of angry residents staged days of violent protests over pollution, the second such incident in as many months… “Everyone is angry beyond belief. This couldn’t happen in Shanghai,” one man living next to the plant told AFP… “We have been complaining about the pollution […]
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Villagers protest factory pollution in China
Hundreds of demonstrators in the eastern Chinese province of Zhejiang on Sunday were camped outside a solar-panel manufacturing plant accused of contaminating a nearby river. BEIJING — In a fresh indication of growing public anger over pollution, hundreds of demonstrators in the eastern Chinese province of Zhejiang on Sunday were camped outside a solar-panel manufacturing […]
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$2.14 billion project underway to relocate 392,000 people due to fluoride-contaminated water
A project that will cost nearly 14 billion yuan ($ 2.14 billion) to relocate people from remote mountainous areas in Northwest China has started, a provincial government said. The relocation project, prompted by health concerns, is targeting residents living in northern Shaanxi’s poverty-stricken Baiyu mountainous areas. The project will take 10 years to help 392,000 […]
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Resurgence of fipronil in China
Note from Fluoride Action Network. Fipronil is a highly toxic pesticide. This is it’s molecular formula: The restriction of insecticide fipronil issued by the MOA, which banned its registrations, sales and usage on most crops in China since 2009, only exemptions have been granted for residential use, corn and exports. Yet the execution for fipronil […]
China Pesticides
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