Pictures worth thousands of lives

• Source: Global Times
• [23:08 November 19 2009]
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A villager washes clothes by the river of Guiyu in Shantou, a port city of Guangdong Province in South China on November 25, 2005. The town of Guiyu is reportedly the largest E-waste site on earth.

People wrap themselves against the dust spewing from the tall chimneys of an ndustrial district in Shizuishan, a prefecture-level city of Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region on April 22, 2006.

Lu Guang, the photographer. Photo: Zhang Siyang

Wang Baosheng caught cerebral thrombosis in 2003. The river in Wang's village of Xiakang is polluted. By 2005, more than 50 villagers had the same disease as Wang. Photos: Courtesy of Lu Gang

By Jiang Xueqing

Sleeping in bed became impossible. He had already lost the strength to stand. In the evening, his wife wrapped 64-year-old Wang Baosheng in a warm coat and blankets, placed him in a chair where he slept, defecated and urinated.

Finally, in 2005, he died.