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Acknowledgements
Jennifer Holdaway and Wang Wuyi
Chen Ajiang
Table 1.1 China’s economy from 1952 to 2015
Graph 1.2 Chemical fertilizer (in converted tons)16 and net amount of nitrogen fertilizer used in agriculture in China, 1980-2015
Graph 1.3 China’s urbanization rate, 1980-2015
Table 1.2 Household waste: total collected, number of waste incinerators and incineration rate, 2003-2015
Table 1.3 Incineration rates over various years as a percentage of all waste collected in three provinces
Chen Ajiang
Table 2.1 Number of articles about ‘cancer villages’ in journals and newspapers, 2001-2010
Table 2.2 Gender and smoking behaviour of lung cancer mortality cases
Table 2.3 Gender and history of Hepatitis B patients who died of liver cancer
Table 2.4 List of patients who died of cancer in Huangmengying
Luo Yajuan
Figure 3.1 The geographical relationship between the Julong Chemical Plant and the Dongjing Village communities, land and river
Table 3.1 Dongjing Village 2001-2005 record of the deceased
Table 3.2 Dongjing Village 2001-2005 record of cancer survivors
Table 3.3 Annual rural cancer mortality rate and Dongjing cancer mortality rate
Table 3.4 Cancer mortality rates in Dongjing, Funing and Yancheng
Chen Ajiang
Figure 4.1 Oesophageal cancer nitrosamine risk diagram
Figure 4.2 The relationship between oesophageal cancer and risk factors
Graph 4.1 Number of people with oesophageal cancer in Bei Village
Table 4.1 Floods, waterlogging and drought in Lianshui County
Table 4.2 Lianshui County population and food production
Table 4.3 Comparison of per capita main agricultural production: Jiangsu Province and Lianshui County
Figure 4.3 Village and water layout in the Bei Village area of Lianshui County
Table 4.4 Fertilizer usage and livestock farming in Lianshui County
Table 4.5 Basic situation of water plants in Qianji Township, Lianshui County
Table 4.6 List of Bei Village malignant tumour patients
Photograph 6 Huangmengying named ‘A Provincial Level Ecological Village’ (August 2011)
Photograph 12 Ducks reappear in the rivers around Dongjing after the Julong chemical plant is relocated (October 2011)
Photograph 17 The chimney of the glass factory, photographed from a villager’s home (December 2010)
Photograph 22 Fly ash solidification area of L Waste incineration power plant (December 2010)
Cheng Pengli
Table 5.1 Industrial enterprises in Xiqiao Village
Figure 5.2 Production process at the metal furniture factory
Table 5.3 Dingbang Village cancer patients who are still alive
Table 5.4 China annual rural cancer mortality rate (unit: 1/100,000)
Cheng Pengli and Li Caihong
Table 6.1 Cancer deaths in Jiannan
Table 6.2 Mortality rates for major cancers nationwide and in Jiannan (1/ 100,000)
Table 6.3 Huating industrial enterprises from the 1970s to the 1990s
Table 6.4 Test results from the three water samples from Jiannan
Li Caihong and Cheng Pengli
Figure 7.1 Schematic diagram of the mine, the rivers and the villages
Table 7.1 Liangqiao cancer deaths, 1982-2007
Table 7.2 Cancers mortality rates in 1991 and 2000 in certain regions of China (1/100,000)
Table 7.3 Main media reports concerning cancer deaths in Shangba
Li Qi and Chen Ajiang
Table 8.1 List of cancer deaths in Y Village before the plant was built (1993-2005)
Table 8.2 List of cancer deaths after the plant was built (2005-2009) in Y Village
Table 8.3 Surviving cancer victims in Y Village after the plant was built
Table 8.4 Confirmation of ‘lung cancer’ deaths after the plant was built
Chen Ajiang and Cheng Pengli
Table 9.1 The basic situation of the four ‘cancer villages’
Table 9.2 Levels of heavy metals in Shangba’s soil, well water, rice, and vegetables
Table 9.3 Test results for three water samples from Jiannan
Figure 9.1 Map of the location of the Xiqiao metal furniture factory
Table 9.4 Ideal types of responses to health risks in ‘cancer villages’
Chen Ajiang and Cheng Pengli
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