 China has said it will spend more than $1.2bn cleaning up the Songhua River along the Russian border after it was polluted by toxic chemicals last year. Water supplies were cut off to millions of people following the benzene leak. The clean-up plan will fund more than 200 projects designed to reduce industrial pollution and improve sewage treatment and water quality. November's spill strained relations with Russia and focused attention on pollution problems in China's rivers. About 3.8m people in the northern Chinese city of Harbin lost their water supplies for up to five days after 100 tonnes of benzene and nitrobenzene leaked into the Songhua. The spillage was caused by an explosion upstream at a PetroChina chemical factory in the north-eastern province of Jilin. ...
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