Lesson from protests

This month saw another protest against a pollution-related project on Saturday. This time, people in Qidong, Jiangsu province, demonstrated against a pipeline project to discharge wastewater from a paper mill in nearby Nantong city into the sea.

The local government announced the cancellation of the project on Saturday itself because of the residents' objection to the disposal of wastewater off the Qidong coast.

Early this month, residents of Shifang, Sichuan province, protested against the building of a molybdenum copper plant, and the local government cancelled the project.