Excerpts from Liang Yin’s diary

Today I went to the home photography studio of a young couple. The house is far outside the South Fourth Ring Road and is not very big, but we spent 2 hours with this super cute couple, munching snacks and joking around. When I finally saw the photo, I really admired how I could still make these "reserved smiles"? I haven’t taken any serious photos in years, so let’s consider it as a birthday commemoration this month.

On November 10, 2007, we visited the people’s livelihood and the river water management situation in Suzhou River.

Since the 1970s, Shanghai began to manage Suzhou River; from 1988 to 1993, Treatment efforts gradually increased, and sewage interception was determined to be the key to treating the Suzhou River. The treatment of the Suzhou River became the focus of discussion throughout Shanghai. From 1998 to 2002, Shanghai carried out the first phase of the comprehensive environmental improvement project of the Suzhou River. From 2002 to 2006 In 2006, the second phase of the project was launched, and from 2006 to 2008, the third phase of the renovation project was launched.

There are many high-rise buildings on both sides of the pier. They are all newly built communities. It is said that the houses here are about 2W per square meter.

Visit to Shanghai Sihang Warehouse on the 12th----------It is said that Sihang Warehouse is the most complete historical relic of the Anti-Japanese War in Shanghai. In addition to the few words and the statue of Xie Jinyuan that can be seen at the door, there is also a very simple Sihang Warehouse Defense War Museum upstairs. The door was locked when we went there, and there was a sign on the first floor saying that the contact number could not be reached. The other floors inside are occupied by offices of various units. Teacher Xu Gang tells the history of Sihang Warehouse....

Diary of Death in Cancer Village - Visit to Yangzhuang Township, Suzhou

Kui River is the only river flowing through Yangzhuang Township , a tributary of the Huaihe River. It originates from Yunlong Lake in Xuzhou City, Jiangsu Province, and enters the Suzhou area of ??Anhui Province through Tong County of Xuzhou. Yangzhuang Township is the village closest to Kui River in Suzhou area. This ordinary village with a history of thousands of years has become a well-known cancer village in the past 20 years due to the high incidence of cancer and hepatitis. December 28, 2011, was cloudy and foggy.

I stayed in Suzhou, Anhui last night and drove to Yangzhuang Township in the north of Suzhou early in the morning. There is only one field between Yangzhuang Township and Xuzhou, Jiangsu Province. The local economy has been developing well. Each village has a cement road connected to the main road. If it were not for the pollution of Kui River, the villagers here may have lived a prosperous life. On the way into Yangzhuang Township, there is a dark and eye-catching iron sign placed across the middle of the road. The words drug-free village are very confusing. After entering the village, I asked the locals that someone secretly grew marijuana here a few years ago. After crackdowns and control, this sign was set up. Again, is it still poisonous now? The man shook his head and pointed at the Kui River in front of him and said, isn't the water poisonous?

I stood by the river for a while. Although it was freezing cold, I could clearly see white foam rolling on the surface of the river, emitting bursts of pungent odor. This is the mother river of Yangzhuang Township.

What makes people laugh is that, right next to the stinky foamy water, a stone tablet stands out. Such slogans can be seen everywhere in the village.

Uncle Wang’s family in Shangwu Village just dug a 20-meter deep well. The water in the original well was highly alkaline, but the water from the new well had a smell when it was pumped up. He had to make tea to remove the smell. The couple both said that when they were children, people in the village used to bathe and swim in the Kui River, but no one went there anymore after the 1960s and 1970s. There used to be fish and aquatic plants in the river, but now it has been drained out and there is nothing left! . There used to be 20,000 acres of rice fields here, but when the rice was sold, people stopped buying it when they heard it was grown by the Kui River. Now farmers can only switch to corn and beans. And when I step in paddy fields, my skin becomes red and itchy. Kui River is just a big ditch and sewer. The water is as black as this one, Uncle Wang pointed at the black shoulder strap of my backpack and said.

The situation in Yiqiao Village is the worst. Director Wang Anbao of Yiqiao Village Health Center took out a death statistics from his desk drawer. This new book records Yiqiao's death list from 2002 to 2006. In a village of more than 1,000 people, an average of about 10 people die every year, the vast majority of whom die from liver cancer or lung cancer, and the incidence of hepatitis in the village reaches 12.

Dean Wang is not very interested in our interview. He said that there have been many media in the village over the years, and many have interviewed him, but the Kui River is still polluted. He said that tap water should be provided here. , there was no water after the water tank was built, the water pipes laid the first time were rotten, and they were laid again a second time, but the project was stopped halfway through. Dean Wang was a little excited when he talked about this. Even the rural medical subsidies were only I said that there is no money for the increase, but what’s the use? I was speechless. I felt ashamed once again facing my interviewee in Yiqiao Hospital, the most basic and crude medical institution I have ever seen. Almost the same question made me silent for the first time in front of Wei Dongying, an environmental activist by the Qiantang River. However, at our request, Dean Wang still took us to visit the homes where relatives had died. Such a house is easily identifiable by a pair of white papers posted on the door. Everywhere I go, a group of villagers will gather around me, rushing to tell us about Kuihe and cancer...

Before leaving, director Liu Xiaomei asked me if I had any special feelings to say, You can record segments and scenes. I said forget it. In fact, Yangzhuang Township is the third cancer village I have interviewed in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River (which should belong to the Huaihe River Basin) in two months since I came out. It’s not that I don’t have any feelings, but at the end of every interview, my mood is the same as today’s weather, gray, and the same as all the victims—sad, angry and helpless. On the way back, I will walk into the next "Yangzhuang Township" again. So, I know I can’t put a final word on these cancer villages.

At 4 o'clock in the afternoon, we were so hungry that we devoured lunch. I spent 6 hours shooting in Yangzhuang Township today. At noon, Uncle Wang wanted to kill the hens he just bought and let us have dinner at his house, but we declined. The mineral water was left in the car without being taken out to take a sip. It is a common thing for TV reporters to endure hunger, but this time, I think Xiaomei, Baochun, and Xiaofan all understand the reason in our hearts.