Dark legacy of Fumian's factories

Manufacturing jeans brought wealth but also environmental woes, reports Li Yang in Guangxi

After French newspaper Libration reported on Fumian's prospering jeans industry in 2004, the town in Southwest China's Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region proclaimed itself "world capital of jeans".

Ten years on, the title comes at a high cost for the town, in terms of both the environment and working conditions.