[7] A wastewater pipeline was designed to carry approximately 150,000 tons of waste water per day from Nantong to the coast off Qidong.

[1] An estimated 1,000 protesters stormed government buildings, where they were reportedly seen "smashing computers, overturning desks and throwing documents out of the windows to loud cheers from the crowd," according to The Guardian.

Information circulated on the popular microblogging site Sina Weibo said that the protesters discovered condoms and expensive liquor in government offices.

Less than one month earlier, a large, student-led protest in Shifang stopped construction on a massive copper smelting plant.

The Wall Street Journal reported on nationalist comments posted on China's Weibo blogging site: "How can a Japanese paper factory come and damage Chinese people's health and our environment?