Word: huangpu
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...different kind of week, the three U.S. warships that sailed up the Huangpu River last Friday and docked in the waters off Shanghai would have been the talk of the town. After all, this was only the second time since 1949 that the U.S. Navy had visited China. But the city's attention was riveted on the Bund, the broad avenue along the river where 100,000 protesters marched. Thus the ships neatly symbolized the peripheral role that Washington played throughout last week. With the explosion of people power, the State Department could do little but advise Beijing...
...variety of antipollution programs, but they have had only limited success. "The public sewage system is badly clogged," says Marwyn S. Samuels, a visiting professor of geography from the University of British Columbia. "Dumping of raw sewage goes on, as well as dumping of industrial wastes into the Huangpu River. If you fly here during the daytime you see three levels of the color of the water. The closer you get to Shanghai, the blacker the water gets...