Word: jiangsu
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...parents of sickened babies are demanding a greater response. "Sanlu is a big company and we trusted their products. We never dreamed that they would sell something so poisonous," says a mother in Xuzhou, a town in the eastern province of Jiangsu. Her 21-month-old son, who drank Sanlu powdered milk since birth, was just diagnosed with kidney stones. "What angers me the most is that Sanlu had known about it for so long," says the mother, who would only give her surname Zeng. "When I called Sanlu, they told me, 'The country will take care...
...Welcome to the Chinese countryside - or, at least, to its richest village. Located in rural Jiangsu province about 85 miles up a dusty highway from Shanghai, Huaxi's 60,000 residents earn a per capita income seven times the national average. They have health insurance, pensions and two-car garages. And soon, also, a chance to live in one of the world's tallest buildings...
...dean at Tsinghua, said the roots of the program date back as far as 1995. That year, officials from Jiangsu province came to American universities for management training...
...authorities to try to stop what they said was the illegal expropriation of their land for a tourism complex. Sure enough, as the case dragged through the courts over the past year, the remaining residents of what was once a picturesque village set amid the bamboo-forested hills of Jiangsu province about 125 miles (200 km) west of Shanghai say they were subject to intimidation ranging from officials pressuring their employers to downright murder threats. One stubborn farmer was sent a text message last June that concluded: "Your life hangs by a thread. If you don't come around immediately...
...Chinese government released a list of 10 of last year's most egregious food-safety cases-everything from selling homemade beer in brand-name bottles to making edible gelatin from OLD LEATHER. The top spot went to a firm in Jiangsu province busted for adulterating its nationally sold nutritional supplement, supposedly made from silkworm chrysalis. The real ingredients? Dried pig's blood and chicken feathers...