Foreign media: China rare earth mining causes serious environmental pollution

Foreign media said , in northern China near the Mongolian border in place for 20 years, caused by pollutants smelting of rare earth has been slowly towards the Yellow River in the ground penetration, while hundreds of millions of people dependent Yellow River is an important source of water.

According to the U.S. "New York Times" Web site on Oct. 22 reported that in southern China 's Jiangxi Province , the discovery of large-scale illegal mining of rare earth open , the state has put control of rare earth mining area where recovered from provincial officials . In Guangdong Province , the regulatory agencies are working to repair and open rare earth mine was left over from strong acids and other substances destroyed rice fields and rivers.

Many areas are faced with 20 years of unregulated rare earth mining and smelting of the accumulated environmental damage. In the Chinese government began to invest heavily in cleanup , environmental impact is becoming an international trade issue because a WTO committee on June 23 released a draft report important .

Reported that , as the world's leading producer of rare earth , China began seven years ago on the export of rare earth export quotas and set taxes . In subsequent years , China gradually increasing tax rates , reduction of export quotas , and slowly tightened on overseas manufacturers supply of rare earth .

China says to set export restrictions are necessary in order to protect the environment. U.S., EU and Japan at the WTO against China imposed taxes and quotas set challenge . They pointed out that China has no effect on the number of domestic consumption of rare earth restrictions .

In June 2012 published a white paper, China rare earth industry, the government detailed description of the environmental damage caused . It may strengthen China 's grounds , that the rare earth industry is a polluting industries, so the export restriction is justified.

White said some local over-exploitation of rare earth , causing landslides, river blockage and sudden environmental pollution incidents , and even cause a major disaster , to the public life and health and the environment caused significant losses.

There are reports that in cancer and other health problems with high rare earth refinery on countless after Baotou, Inner Mongolia and the Yellow River between the villagers have been evacuated relocated to other parts of the towers. Chinese media reported that , where goats and other livestock mortality rate , infant severely deformed , it may be produced by rare earth industry caused radioactive contamination . Here there is little precipitation , so these wastes little chance of being rushed into the river .

According to reports, in order to get Beijing , the state-owned enterprises have been removed Baotou smelter and mining areas in the Bayan Obo huge reconstruction . Mining area is located in an almost uninhabited areas ( apart from miners outside ) from Baotou and Yellow have three hours by car. According to Beijing 's industry officials said reconstruction smelter already has a large number of sewage treatment facilities.


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