Nearly a thousand residents in Wuhan joined a protest to oppose the local authorities’ plan to build a large battery factory in a residential neighborhood. After a multi-day standoff between residents and authorities, the project has been temporarily suspended.
On the evening of March 15, about 1,000 residents assembled in the Jiangxia District of Wuhan city in Hubei Province, following similar protests on March 8 and March 11. At the scene, the head of the Jiangxia District Complaints and Proposals Administration announced to the crowd that the previously issued public notice regarding the plan of building the battery factory had been nullified. Although officials did not explicitly state whether the project had been permanently canceled, the public notice withdrawal signifies that the procedures for advancing the project have been effectively halted….
Large Protests Erupt in Wuhan Against CCP’s Battery Factory Project in Residential Neighborhood
