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Lead pollution from workshops in eastern china seriously poisoned 103 children and has affected hundreds of other residents in the country latest case of unfettered industrial toxins, the official Xinhua news agency reported on Sunday.

The pollution from tinfoil making workshops in Yangx-unqiao town in Zhejiang province left the children age 14 or younger, with 250 micro-grammas or more of lead for every liter of blood.

Another 26 adults were found to have “severe lead poisoning, or with more 600 micro-grammas of lead per liter of blood. “The report said, citing local health officials.

Workers and their family members, including children, are constantly exposed to lead materials in the family-run workshops,” said the report, adding that a dozen of the children were receiving hospital treatment for the lead. Nearly 500 other residents of the township were found to have “moderate” lead poisoning, with 400 to 600 micro-grammas of lead per blood.

This is the latest reported case of a pollution problem that has stricken many towns and villages across china, were residents often live within meters of laxly regulated factories and workshops competing to produce cheaply.

The industrial growth has run up against residents increasingly worried about their health. Most of the workers in the tinfoil plants are migrants from other, poorer parts of china, said the Xinhua report.

Lead poisoning can build up through regular exposure to small amounts of lead, damaging the nervous and reproductive systems and kidneys, as well as causing high blood pressure and anemia. Lead is especially harmful for children and can to learning difficulties and behavioral problems.

But Beijing has often failed to match vows to clean up polluters with the resources and political will to enforce such demands, as local officials put growth, revenue and jobs ahead of environmental protection.

China is the world’s biggest consumer of refined lead and battery making accounts for 70 percent of that consumption, which is likely to growth to 4.1 million tons in 2011.

Dozens of people living near a big battery factory in Zhejiang were found to have dangerously high levels of lead poisoning, local news reports said in March.

This is actually a serious matter for the villagers and natural balance of our environment. China always shouts about development and advancement, which had tremendously achieved economic growth. But, it was not really long time to wait for its reaction. As Newton’s third law” Every action has equal and opposite reaction” China is most damaging and harmful creator of global threats of artificial resources, which resulted to cause pollution, droughts, floods, landslide, earthquake, and etc. The county who had faces these disasters; people will suffer different stage and age of diseases and natural imbalance. This is globally concerning and an issue for World Health Organization to initiating and contributing happiness to the people without any cost and man power. We the generation of this age criticize the Leaders of communist China who are responsible for victims of these natural disasters. China’s craftiness strategy is invisible margin for international viewers and the people. The most of south eastern Asia are politically instable and economically marginal, of one china policy. This is undercover remote control directing to murdering and creating political dilemma to taking advantage the benefit of doubts. Mao’s most influential strategy exists and is applicable today. This is the socially terrorization to the people and nation. We urge government to urgent blocked on processing projects of mining, dams, earth fissure, and tunneling which are carrying today. We are the directly victimized people and earth is biologically belongs to all human beings directly or indirectly. Therefore, we must have limitations and regulations to going too advancement which is not the ultimate need.