SHUTDOWN PROVIDES GREEN CATALYST

More than 130 heavily polluting plants have been removed from banks of Yangtze River

As he looked out across the Yangtze River, Dai Shengdong, a former employee of Tiantian Chemicals Co, spoke sentimentally about his former employer.

"We did pretty well, and we paid a lot of tax," he said, standing near the company's partially demolished fertilizer plant in Yichang, a city in Hubei province.