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Firemen put out a fire caused by illegal burning at a garbage recycling workshop in Hefei, east China's Anhui province
07 Nov 2007
Source: Reuters
 
Firemen put out a fire caused by illegal burning at a garbage recycling workshop in Hefei, east China's Anhui province, November 7, 2007. With the rapid development of the economy and the gradual increase in population concentration, the per capita production of garbage in large and medium-sized cities in China is growing at an annual rate of 10 percent at present, Xinhua News Agency reported. REUTERS/Jianan Yu (CHINA)
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A woman works in the fields above a tributary of the Yangtze River in Chenjialing Village, where cracks are appearing in most of the houses, in Hubei Province near the town of Badong in central China November 5, 2007. The slopes of Chenjialing Village have shuddered and groaned lately, cracking and warping homes and fields, and making residents fear the banks of China's swelling Three Gorges Dam may hold deadly perils. Picture taken November 5, 2007. To match feature CHINA-THREEGORGES/ REUTERS/David Gray (CHINA)



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