Shangba

Shangba
Traditional Chinese	上壩村
Simplified Chinese	上坝村
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin	Shàngbà Cūn

Shangba
Shangba ; 上坝村
	Village
	Shangba Location in Guangdong
	Coordinates: 24°27′39″N 113°48′48″E
Country	People's Republic of China
Province	Guangdong
Prefecture-level city	Shaoguan
County	Wengyuan
Town	Xinjiang

Shangba is a village of about 3,300 people administered by Xinjiang Town in Wengyuan County, Guangdong.[1][2][3] It is an agricultural village, with rice and sugar cane being major crops. In 2007 the village acquired the nickname China's "Village of Death" [4] due to the extremely high incidence of cancer in its population.

In addition, the local river, the Hengshui River, known locally as "The Dead River", is Shangba's only water supply, and it has become so polluted that it is endangering the health of those living nearby.[5] One of the major pollutants in the river and well water is lead, which a provincial research institute reported as being present in the well water at some fifteen times what the national government set as a maximum acceptable rate for drinking water.[6]

The presumed source of the pollution is the Dabaoshan Mine for zinc, once Asia's largest mine for this mineral. The village's crops are also highly contaminated.[7][8]

References

新江镇 [Xinjiang Town]. National Bureau of Statistics of the People's Republic of China. 2013. Retrieved 3 March 2014. (in Chinese)
2017年统计用区划代码和城乡划分代码：新江镇 [2017 Statistical Area Numbers and Rural-Urban Area Numbers: Xinjiang Town] (in Chinese). National Bureau of Statistics of the People's Republic of China. 2017. Retrieved 25 July 2018. 440229114204 220 上坝村委会
新江镇 [Xinjiang Town] (in Chinese). XZQH.org. 1 September 2014. Retrieved 25 July 2018. 【2011年代码及城乡分类】440229114:{...}～204 220上坝村{...}
"China's 'cancer villages' pay price". BBC News. 17 January 2007. Retrieved 18 March 2014.
"CNN.com - Paging Dr. Gupta Blog". Cnn.com. Retrieved 14 November 2014.
Archived 27 February 2008 at the Wayback Machine
"Red river brings cancer, Chinese villagers say". Cnn.com. Retrieved 14 November 2014.
"CNN.com - Transcripts". Transcripts.cnn.com. Retrieved 14 November 2014.

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[1] 新江镇 [Xinjiang Town]. National Bureau of Statistics of the People's Republic of China. 2013. Retrieved 3 March 2014. (in Chinese)

[statxj-2] 2017年统计用区划代码和城乡划分代码：新江镇 [2017 Statistical Area Numbers and Rural-Urban Area Numbers: Xinjiang Town] (in Chinese). National Bureau of Statistics of the People's Republic of China. 2017. Retrieved 25 July 2018. 440229114204 220 上坝村委会

[xzqhxj-3] 新江镇 [Xinjiang Town] (in Chinese). XZQH.org. 1 September 2014. Retrieved 25 July 2018. 【2011年代码及城乡分类】440229114:{...}～204 220上坝村{...}

[4] "China's 'cancer villages' pay price". BBC News. 17 January 2007. Retrieved 18 March 2014.

[5] "CNN.com - Paging Dr. Gupta Blog". Cnn.com. Retrieved 14 November 2014.

[6] Archived 27 February 2008 at the Wayback Machine

[7] "Red river brings cancer, Chinese villagers say". Cnn.com. Retrieved 14 November 2014.

[8] "CNN.com - Transcripts". Transcripts.cnn.com. Retrieved 14 November 2014.