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“I think those on the front line must have sympathised with the people affected by the disaster, and considered themselves lucky not to live near hazardous industrial parks. I believe they must have done as well as I did in the civil service examination. It is unfortunate that the accident they dealt with wasn’t just a ‘rumour.’”

| Long Ling | What really happened in Yancheng? · London Review of Books 13 January 2020 https://lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v42/n02/long-ling/diary