Pollution of Pizhou Alloy Factory

The land was illegally occupied by enterprises and the compensation was not in place. The life of the villagers has not yet settled. Several acres of vegetable fields around the enterprise have stopped growing vegetables and have been replanted into poplars by villagers. The purpose of planting poplars is by no means for economic benefits, but as far as possible to block the pungent smell floating from the river at night by Xing Alloy Group.

Lou Demin, a villager, told the reporter: "Today, there are no children in Xinsanhe Village, Yunhe Town, Pizhou City, Jiangsu Province. Since Zhuang Siliang's one-and-a-half-year-old son was tested for lead poisoning in May this year, young parents in the village have chosen to "flee" with their young children.

Why did they "escape" from their ancestral home?

"Five months ago, I found that my one-and-a-half-year-old son, Zhuang Kai, was still unable to speak, especially naughty and prone to ADHD. I wonder if my son is short of some trace elements. Therefore, through Pizhou Maternal and Child Health Hospital, the hair was tested in Bengbu East China Institute of Trace Element Application Technology, and the test results showed that the lead content exceeded the standard. For further physical examination, the doctor suggested taking the children to the Third People's Hospital in Xuzhou, which is the only one with blood lead test conditions, for blood lead test. The result surprised me: the blood lead content reached190μ g/L. "Zhuang Kai's father, Zhuang Siliang, felt heavy.

"According to international diagnostic standards: Zhuang Kai's symptoms belong to secondary lead poisoning. Heme metabolism will be affected and nerve conduction velocity will decrease. The doctor suggested taking Qizao oral liquid for lead excretion treatment. "

At the same time, the doctor also suggested that Zhuang Siliang find out the cause of lead poisoning, find the source of pollution, and try to leave the source of pollution as far as possible to prevent the child from continuing to be hurt.

Coincidentally, at this time, more than a dozen children in Xinsanhe Village had their hair tested, and the result was that the lead content exceeded the standard.

Jiangsu Chunxing Alloy Group was unanimously suspected as a lead pollution source for the first time.

Ma Yonggang, executive deputy general manager of Jiangsu Chunxing Alloy Group, said: "Jiangsu Chunxing Alloy (Group) Co., Ltd. is the largest lead recycling enterprise in China, mainly engaged in the research, development and comprehensive utilization of lead-containing wastes such as waste lead-acid batteries. The annual output of lead and lead alloy is 654.38 million tons. It has been rated as a large taxpayer of private enterprises in Pizhou for many years, and it is a key enterprise supported by the people's governments of Pizhou and Xuzhou. The Group has set up wholly-owned or holding enterprises in Shunde, Xiamen, Fujian, Tianjin, Chongqing and Thailand and Indonesia abroad. Among them, the Thai branch was praised by the Ambassador of China to the Kingdom of Thailand as a model of friendly cooperation between China and Thailand, enjoying the tax-free treatment granted by the Thai government and becoming a must-see enterprise in China. "

The villagers told reporters: "Chunxing Alloy Group has built a factory in our village for 20 years. Previously, due to the backward concept of everyone, no one realized that there would be "lead poisoning" and there was no physical examination. But the air pollution caused by the start-up of enterprises makes people's throats dry, astringent and sweet; Ginkgo trees and vegetables will never be harvested. The villagers suffered heavy losses, but Jiangsu Chunxing Alloy Group relied on itself as a big taxpayer and simply ignored the demands of the masses. "

Lou Demin's mother told reporters: "My 8-year-old grandson Lou Beibei and 12-year-old neighbor Jaco were also found to have excessive lead in their hair. In order to confirm the diagnosis, our two families went to the Third People's Hospital of Xuzhou City for a blood lead test, and the results showed that the lead content did not exceed the standard. This test result appeared after Zhuang Kai's parents found the manufacturer to ask for compensation, but the manufacturer refused to pay compensation. Is it that the Third People's Hospital of Xuzhou accepted the benefits of the manufacturer and made a false test report? "

In order to find out, Jaco, Lou Beibei and Nick Cheung took their children to Nanjing Children's Hospital for reexamination in early September. A week later, the test results showed that the lead content of all three children exceeded the standard. Among them, Jaco, whose lead content exceeded the standard in the Third People's Hospital of Xuzhou City, was identified as severe lead poisoning in this inspection. It is recommended to take medicine and check it regularly.

The doctor told Jaco's family: "Severe lead poisoning in children will affect the metabolism of iron, zinc and calcium, and there will be calcium deficiency, zinc deficiency and hemoglobin synthesis disorder, which may include low immunity, learning difficulties, inattention, decreased IQ or physical retardation. In order to achieve effective therapeutic effect: it is necessary to stay away from lead pollution sources. "

This means that at a very young age, they will leave their homes and ancestral homes.

Lou Demin told reporters: "My youngest son was born less than a month ago, and we will leave here as soon as the child is full moon. Although I am extremely reluctant to leave my ancestral home, this is our only choice for the long-term healthy growth of our children. "

The factory said: We are a pollution-free enterprise.

Zhuang Siliang told reporters: "I opened a restaurant by the He Peng River, which is less than 100 meters away from the factory of Jiangsu Chunxing Alloy Group. Since the pollution problem of Chunxing Alloy Factory was discovered by villagers, fewer and fewer customers came here to eat. For the sake of children's health, I intend to sell this boat as soon as possible and leave Xinsanhe Village. "

The two granddaughters of villager Chang Taiping have also left Xinsanhe Village since they discovered lead poisoning. She told reporters: "In 2004, more than 360 ginkgo trees planted in my field died because of environmental pollution. More than 30 villagers' representatives went to Jiangsu Chunxing Alloy Group to ask for compensation. Although the group sent people to the village to count the losses suffered by the villagers, it never gave any compensation. "

Zhuang Siliang told reporters: "Wang Shaomeng, the legal adviser of Jiangsu Chunxing Alloy Group, once told me privately that enterprises can't promise compensation, because employees in the whole village and even the whole factory of Xinsanhe Village may have symptoms of lead poisoning. As soon as the precedent of compensation is opened, the consequences are unimaginable. "

Under the leadership of the villagers, the reporter saw that all the weeds on the side of the wastewater ditch on the east side of the factory of Jiangsu Chunxing Alloy Group died, while the weeds far away from the wastewater ditch were still flourishing. On the north side of the fence with barbed wire, dozens of acres of excellent vegetable fields have also been replanted with poplar and ginkgo trees. On a piece of land near the fence, there is a thick layer of white powder and leaves on the ground.

The reporter also saw that the black battery shell in the courtyard of Jiangsu Chunxing Alloy Group was piled up into a hill in the open air. Once it rains, harmful substances attached to the battery case after being washed by the rain will penetrate into the ground and flow into rivers and surrounding fields with the rain, which will bring serious pollution hazards.

Zhong Shenghao, chief engineer of Shanghai Hazardous Waste Treatment Center, said in an interview with reporters some time ago: "If waste batteries are not well managed and left to flow, it will indeed cause pollution to the environment that cannot be ignored. Heavy metals and toxic waste liquid decomposed by waste lead-acid batteries will also destroy the air environment and ecological balance, causing diseases in human neurometabolism, reproduction and nerves, and even lead to death in severe cases. "

654381October 8, Zhao Guanyin, director of the office of Jiangsu Chunxing Alloy Group, said in an interview: "Children's lead exceeding the standard cannot be simply identified as the result of our company's research and development and comprehensive utilization of waste lead-containing batteries. There have also been many incidents of lead exceeding the standard in Beijing. Relevant experts pointed out that excessive lead and lead poisoning are also related to large automobile exhaust emissions. "

On the other hand, villagers' representatives think that Zhao Guanyin of Jiangsu Chunxing Alloy Group compares the car ownership of Beijing metropolis with that of Xinsanhe Village, which is far away from the urban area and located in a remote place, which is unreasonable.

Ma Yonggang, executive deputy general manager of Jiangsu Chunxing Alloy Group, took the reporter to visit the factory briefly. He said: "Our group all uses the latest domestic stoves to extract and recycle waste lead, and implements smokeless production without pollution."

Zhao Guanyin, director of the group's office, also told reporters: "China's recycled lead industry is in a state of high energy consumption, heavy pollution and backward technology. Domestic small enterprises recycle lead, and the lead content of lead dust falling into the sky is as high as 30%. If this part of lead dust can be skillfully used, it can increase profits for enterprises, and vice versa. "

September 2004 1 Is it true that Chunxing Group, which was advertised on the website of Pizhou, China, became a demonstration enterprise of pollution-free recycled lead in China? Can enterprises really be absolutely pollution-free? If there is no pollution, why are the vegetables, ginkgo trees, fish, shrimp and weeds all dead in the river? Why do children suffer from lead poisoning? Zhao Guanyin's answer is obviously lacking in confidence: "I said that enterprises are pollution-free, and pollution should be minimized. We set up the "pollution-free research group during the Eighth Five-Year Plan" and recruited three graduate students and sixteen undergraduates for research and technological innovation. "

In the following time, the video materials shown by the villagers to reporters showed that during the production process of Jiangsu Chunxing Alloy Group, smoke billowed into the sky.

The villagers' representatives also told reporters: "In March 2007, Jiangsu Chunxing Alloy Group forcibly requisitioned 25 mu of land in Xinsanhe Village to expand the production scale and build permanent buildings. And these vegetable fields have been cultivated for more than 20 years. The village sent someone to bring an informal blank contract and forced the villagers to sign the land. However, the land compensation promised in the contract has been delayed. The villagers persisted in the wind and sun at the entrance of Jiangsu Chunxing Alloy Group for more than a month before they won compensation of several hundred yuan a year. "

25 mu of land is illegally transferred and occupied, who should be responsible?

"The lawyer told us that these land compensation agreements are invalid contracts. The contract only has the official seal of the guarantor (People's Government of Yunhe Town, Pizhou City), and Party A (Xinsanhe Village Committee of Yunhe Town, Pizhou City) has neither the official seal nor the signature of the agent. Even the land area on the contract is blank. According to the contract, Party A shall compensate Party B (the occupied villagers) for 900- 1000 yuan every year. Party A didn't affix its official seal and signature, probably because it was afraid to bear the illegal responsibility of buying and selling land. " The villagers' representatives held informal contracts in their hands and looked helpless.

Zhao Guanyin, director of Jiangsu Chunxing Alloy Group Office, told the reporter: "In March 2007, our group signed a land use agreement with Yunhe Town, Pizhou City, and the responsible comrades of Yunhe Town People's Government promised to go through the legal land use procedures and approval. The Yunhe Town Government stated that the materials have been declared and the compensation for land occupation has been handed over to the Yunhe Town Government. So far, there is no land use certificate, which may be mainly because Chunxing Group has not paid the land transfer fee! "

The reporter went to Yunhe Town People's Government twice on September 26th and June 8th 10 respectively to interview the illegal transfer of land in Xinsanhe Village. However, the relevant person in charge of the Yunhe Town People's Government has been avoiding it.

On the afternoon of October 8th, 65438/KLOC-0, the reporter came to Pizhou Land and Resources Bureau. Zhang Yuerui, the head of the Cultivated Land Protection Section, inquired about the previous land requisition materials and told the reporter with great certainty: "Since 2007, the use of the first and third groups of plots in Xinli Village, north of Jiangsu Chunxing Alloy Group has not been reported to our bureau, which belongs to illegal occupation."

The reporter's consulting lawyer learned that Article 342 of the Criminal Law of China stipulates that anyone who illegally occupies cultivated land for other purposes in violation of land management regulations and causes a lot of damage to cultivated land shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than five years or criminal detention, and shall also or only be fined. According to the judicial interpretation of Article 3 of the Supreme People's Court's Interpretation on Several Issues Concerning the Specific Application of Laws in the Trial of Criminal Cases of Destruction of Land Resources, illegal occupation of cultivated land "in a large amount" refers to illegal occupation of more than 5 mu of basic farmland or illegal occupation of cultivated land other than basic farmland 10 mu.

Obviously, Jiangsu Chunxing Alloy Group illegally occupies 25 mu of cultivated land, and Yunhe Town People's Government illegally provides 25 mu of cultivated land, which has met the constitutive requirements of land crime.

As of press time, the reporter was informed that the villagers' representatives of Xinsanhe Village had submitted a joint report letter to Pizhou Municipal Bureau of Land and Resources, demanding that the Bureau of Land and Resources seriously investigate and deal with the illegal land sales of Jiangsu Chunxing Alloy Group and Yunhe Town People's Government, and transfer them to judicial organs to investigate the criminal responsibility of relevant personnel. Ordered to return the occupied cultivated land, dismantle the ground buildings and resume farming.