Tianying

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The large community of Tianying ( Chinese  田营镇 , Pinyin Tiányíng Zhèn ) is part of the independent city of Jieshou (界首 市), which in turn belongs to the administrative area of ​​the independent city ​​of Fuyang in the northwest of the Chinese province of Anhui . At the 2000 census, Tianying had 26,095 residents. That was 4.1% of Jieshou's 640,878 residents at the time. At the end of 2004 the population of Jieshouse had grown to over 750,000.

Around half of the lead ore in the People's Republic of China is mined in Tianying and the surrounding area . Poorly developed technologies and a lack of environmental control measures have meant that the average lead concentration in the air and in the ground is eight and a half to ten times the international limit values, according to the Blacksmith Institute . The result is numerous health problems for the population, including learning disabilities, growth disorders, kidney malfunctions or brain damage.

The rivers in the vicinity of the town are so heavily contaminated with lead that China's state environmental authority temporarily shut down individual lead smelters as early as 2003. In total, around 140,000 people in Tianying, the other communities and large communities in Jieshou and Taihe County , which is also part of Fuyang, are affected by the pollution.

In 2007, the Blacksmith Institute put Tianying on the list of the ten most polluted places in the world.

Coordinates: 33 ° 25 '  N , 115 ° 35'  E

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