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China Marine Surveillance ship Haijian 83 arrives at Yongxing Island of Sansha City, south China's Hainan Province, March 9, 2013. A marine surveillance fleet departed from Sanya in south China's Hainan Province Friday afternoon for regular patrols in the South China Sea. The team, consisting of three China Marine Surveillance (CMS) ships will patrol waters around the Xisha Islands for nine days. (Xinhua/Wei Hua)

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Citizens are seen amid dust and sand in Zhengzhou, capital of central China's Henan Province, March 9, 2013. A sandstorm swept through Henan on Saturday, causing temperature drop and low visibility. (Xinhua/Zhao Peng)

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Female college students are seen during a job fair specially held for females in Nanjing, capital of east China's Jiangsu Province, March 9, 2013. A job fair for female college students were held here on Saturday, providing more than 3,000 positions from some 100 employers. (Xinhua/Sun Can)

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A performer waits for a show during a press conference of the spring sacrificing ceremony of the Confucius Temple in Taipei, southeast China's Taiwan, March 7, 2013. The ancient-style ceremony, which is held annually to encourage students to set clear goals and study hard in the beginning of a year, will be held on March 10 this year. (Xinhua/Xie Xiudong)

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A fire broke out at a residential building in Chaoyang District, Beijing, March 9, 2013. Nobody was injured in the fire that scared residents out of their houses. Police suspected the fire was caused by the inflammable garbage dumped near the building. [Sun Yuqing / chinadaily.com.cn]

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A customer purchases chicken at a market in Changchun, capital of northeast China's Jilin Province, March 9, 2013. China's consumer price index (CPI), a main gauge of inflation, grew 3.2 percent year on year in February, the highest level in ten months, the National Bureau of Statistics announced Saturday. [Xinhua/Zhang Nan]

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BEIJING (AP) -- A surge in the dumping of dead pigs upstream from Shanghai — with more than 2,800 carcasses floating into the financial hub through Monday — has followed a police campaign to curb the illicit trade in sick pig parts.

The effort to keep infected pork off dinner tables may be fueling new health fears, as Shanghai residents and local media fret over the possibility of contamination to the city's water supply, though authorities say no contamination has been detected.

Authorities have been pulling out the swollen and rotting pigs, some with their internal organs visible, since Friday — and revolting images of the carcasses in news reports and online blogs have raised public ire against local officials.

"Well, since there supposedly is no problem in drinking this water, please forward this message, if you agree, to ask Shanghai's party secretary, mayor and water authority leaders if they will be the first ones to drink this meat soup?" lawyer Gan Yuanchun said on his verified microblog.

On Monday, Shanghai officials said the number of dumped adult and piglet carcasses retrieved had reached 2,813. The city government, citing monitoring authorities, said the drinking water quality has not been affected.

Shanghai's Agriculture Committee said authorities don't know what caused the pigs to die, but that they have detected a sometimes-fatal pig disease in at least one of the carcasses. The disease is associated with the porcine circovirus, which is widespread in pigs but doesn't affect humans or other livestock.

Shanghai's city government said initial investigations had found the dead pigs had come from Jiaxing city in neighboring Zhejiang province. It said it had not found any major epidemic.

Huang Beibei, a lifetime resident of Shanghai, was the first to expose the problem when he took photos of the carcasses and uploaded them onto his microblog on Thursday.

"This is the water we are drinking," Huang wrote. "What is the government doing to address this?"

His graphic photos apparently caught the attention of local reporters, who followed up.

Huang said he's most concerned about water safety. "Though the government says the water is safe, at least I do not believe it — given the number of the pigs in the river. These pigs have died from disease," Huang said.

The dumping follows a clampdown on the illegal trade in contaminated pork.

In China, pigs that have died from disease should be either incinerated or buried, but some unscrupulous farmers and animal control officials have sold problematic carcasses to slaughterhouses. The pork harvested from such carcasses has ended up in markets. As a food safety problem, it has drawn attention from China's Ministry of Public Security, which has made it a priority to crack down on gangs that purchase dead diseased pigs and process them for illegal profits.

Zhejiang police said on their official website that police have been campaigning to rid the market of unsafe pork meat and that the efforts were stepped up this winter as Chinese families gathered to celebrate the Lunar New Year in February.

In one operation last year, police in Jiaxing broke up a criminal gang that acquired and slaughtered diseased pigs. The provincial authorities said police arrested 12 suspects and confiscated nearly 12 tons of tainted pork meat.

"Ever since the police have stepped up efforts to crack down on the illicit market of sick pigs since last year, no one has come here to buy dead pigs, and the problem of pig dumping is worse than ever this year," an unnamed villager told the Jiaxing Daily newspaper, which is run by the local Communist Party.

Wang Xianjun, a government worker for Zhulin village, told the newspaper that villagers were breeding too many pigs.

Wang said the village had 10,078 dead pigs in January and another 8,325 in February. "We have limited land in the village," he said. "We do not have that much land for burial."

Zheng Fengtian, a professor at the School of Agricultural Economics and Rural Development at Renmin University in Beijing, acknowledged that there is illegal trade in diseased dead pigs in China.

"According to the law, dead pigs must be burned or buried, but if there is not enough regulatory monitoring, it's possible some of them will be sold into the market at low prices," he said, adding that it isn't known how serious the problem is.

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By PETER PARKS | AFP | Getty Images
Sanitation workers collect a dead pig from Shanghai's main waterway on March 11, 2013. Nearly 3,000 dead pigs have been found floating in Shanghai's main waterway, the Chinese city's government said on March 11 as residents expressed fears over possible contamination of drinking water. AFP PHOTO/Peter PARKS

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Customers shop at a supermarket in Shanghai March 8, 2013. China's annual consumer inflation quickened to 3.2 percent in February from January's 2.0 percent, data showed on Saturday in a further sign that China's burgeoning recovery could be stoking price pressures. Picture taken March 8, 2013. REUTERS/Aly Song

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A protester wearing a Guy Fawkes mask demonstrates outside a Louis Vuitton store at Hong Kong's Tsim Sha Tsui shopping district March 10, 2013. The luxury good brand angered netizens early this week by demanding HK25,000 ($3,205) compensation from the owner of a local hair salon of trademark infringement after he was found to have chairs covered in what appeared to be the French label's trademarked check pattern, local media reported on Tuesday.

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By Lam Yik Fei | Getty Images News
TAIPEI, TAIWAN - MARCH 10: Protesters mass after camping overnight outside the Taiwan presidential palace on March 10, 2013 in Taipei, Taiwan. Tens of thousands of protesters took to the streets in Taiwan calling on the government to shut down the island's nuclear power plants, citing the painful lesson of Japan's nuclear crisis after a 9.0-magnitude earthquake two years ago.

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Tie Feiyan, a deputy to the 12th National People's Congress (NPC), prepares her proposal for the NPC session at a hotel in Beijing, capital of China, March 4, 2013. Tie, born in Aug. 1992, a toll-taker in Zhaotong of southwest China's Yunnan Province. Chinese netizens hailed her as "the most beautiful girl born after 1990," as she once rescued people from drowning and has adopted an abandoned infant. After being elected as a NPC deputy, Tie had visited lots of "left-behind" children, who lived with their grandparents as their parents had migrated to cities for work as well as urban migrant population to find difficulties and problems in their daily life. As a result, when she came to Beijing for her first NPC session, she suggested to enhance the protection of the rights and benefits for "left-behind" children. She said that she had strong confidence to keep the duty as a NPC deputy in the coming five years. (Xinhua/Qin Qing)

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Elementary school students wearing panda hats pick team leaves in Ya'an, Sichuan province. The plants use panda excrement for fertilizer and produce tea leaves worth 220.000 yuan ($35,100) per kg. [For China Daily]

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People pose for a photo at the entrance to the Ministry of Railways in Beijing, March 10, 2013. China plans to dismantle the Ministry of Railways, according to a report delivered to the annual session of the country's top legislature on March 10, 2013. The proposed state railway administration, to be supervised by the Ministry of Transport, will run the existing Railway Ministry. The proposed China Railway Corporation will run the existing Railway Ministry's commercial functions. [Photo/Xinhua]

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Zheng Xiya, 78, helps his wife put flowers in her hair, to celebrate the folk festival honoring the sea goddess Mazu in Xunpu village, Hui’an city of East China’s Fujian province, March 10, 2013. [Photo by Yang Enuo/Asianewsphoto]

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bd popeye said:

This is horrible.

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kwaigonegin said:

this is ridiculous.. the people responsible for dumping these carcasses should get long jail time. The problem with china is still the mentality of large swath of the population. While a vast majority has become better there are still hundreds of millions who has really backward '3rd world' mentality like these fools dumping on the river. It goes beyond lack of enforcement or even local officials being useless of corruption.

This is no different than the dead fetuses and babies dump on the river couple months ago also by two hospital employees.!! SICK!!!

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Photo taken on March 11, 2013 by cellphone shows a fire accident scene on Qiyi Street in the old town of Lijiang, southwest China's Yunnan Province. The fire broke out here at around 8:30 p.m. (1230 GMT) on Monday. No casualties were reported as of 10:00 p.m. Police and fire control units have been dispatched to the fire scene. (Xinhua)

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A rescuer returns to the surface after searching for miners trapped in a mud-rock flow accident at the Zhenxing Coal Mine in Hegang City, northeast China's Heilongjiang Province, March 12, 2013. Seven miners had been rescued and 18 others remained trapped after the accident happened on Monday afternoon. (Xinhua/Wang Kai)

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A trapped miner is helped to walk out of a coal mine after a mud-rock flow accident occurred at the Zhenxing Coal Mine in Hegang City, northeast China's Heilongjiang Province, March 12, 2013. Seven miners had been rescued and 18 others remained trapped after the accident happened on Monday afternoon. (Xinhua/Wang Kai)

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A marine surveillance helicopter flies over the Ganquan Island, an uninhabited island of the Xisha Islands in the South China Sea, March 11, 2013. Crew members aboard the Chinese marine surveillance ship Haijian 262 patrolled the Ganquan Island on Monday. (Xinhua/Wei Hua)

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Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains is considered one of the greatest surviving masterpieces by the highly acclaimed Chinese painter Huang Gongwang (1269–1354). (Source: news.xinhuanet.com)

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Main cast of the movie "So Young" drink a toast to celebrate the movie's director Vicki Zhao's birthday during a press conference in Beijing, capital of China, March 12, 2013. The movie will be released on April 26, 2013.(Xinhua)

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A French teacher (right) plants trees with students in Liaocheng city, Shandong province on March 11. Tree Planting Day is March 12 in China. [Photo by Kong Zhang Zhenxiang /Asianewsphoto

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Soldiers plant trees on a farm in Taizhou city, Zhejiang province on March 11. Tree Planting Day is March 12 in China. [Photo by Jia Ce /Asianewsphoto]

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Air Force Brat said:

Actually kwaigongegin it is, while the pollution and fouling of anyones drinking water is reprehensible, the taking of the lives of millions of unborn as birth control is genocide, and is beyond my comprehension, their God will judge. I say this as an American, the greatest genocide that has ever occured is ongoing against the unborn, and in many places newborn, the scriptures are very clear, and it absolutely breaks my heart, little people and the elderly have a right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, my apologies to fellow posters, and mods feel free to move/remove this as it is off topic, I just feel compelled to speak out in defense of the unborn at every opporttunity and know some of my brothers on the forum will understand, that little ditty we sang in VBS, Red and Yellow, Black and White, they are prescious in HIS sight. One of the reasons I love you guys, and without any reservation refer to you as MY Brothers, your servant, Air Force Brat.

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Rescuers carry victims of a traffic accident as a sleeper coach fell off the Jingzhou Yangtze River Bridge in Jingzhou, central China's Hubei Province, March 12, 2013. At least 14 people were killed and nine injured during the the accident which happened at around 7:00 p.m. Tuesday when a flat tire caused the coach to break through the guardrail at the southern end of the bridge and hit the ground underneath the structure. Rescue work is under way. (Xinhua/Shi Jiuyong)

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Rescuers conduct a rescue operation at the accident site after a sleeper coach fell off the Jingzhou Yangtze River Bridge in Jingzhou, central China's Hubei Province, March 12, 2013.

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A citizen goes out in the cold weather in Yangzhou City, east China's Jiangsu Province, March 12, 2013. Affected by a blast of cold air, the temperature in Yangzhou City declined Tuesday. (Xinhua/Meng Delong)

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A miner injured in a coal and gas outburst accident receives medical treatment in a hospital in Liupanshui City, southwest China's Guizhou Province, March 13, 2013. Twenty-one miners were killed and four others were missing in the accident which happened Tuesday evening at the Machang Coal Mine belonging to Gemudi Company of Guizhou Water and Mining Group, in Shuicheng County of Liupanshui City. All the 20 injured miners were under stable condition, according to local authorities. (Xinhua/Ou Dongqu)

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Relatives of miners wait at the site of the accident in Shuicheng County, southwest China's Guizhou Province, March 13, 2013. Twenty-one miners were killed and four others were missing in a coal and gas outburst Tuesday evening at Machang Coal Mine which belongs to Gemudi Company of Guizhou Water & Mining Group. Eighty-three miners were working underground when the accident took place, and 58 of them managed to get to the ground safely. (Xinhua/Ou Dongqu)

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A family member of a miner cries at the site of the accident in Shuicheng County, southwest China's Guizhou Province, March 13, 2013. Twenty-one miners were killed and four others were missing in a coal and gas outburst Tuesday evening at Machang Coal Mine which belongs to Gemudi Company of Guizhou Water & Mining Group. Eighty-three miners were working underground when the accident took place, and 58 of them managed to get to the ground safely. (Xinhua/Ou Dongqu)

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Pupils take their free lunch in the dining hall at No. 1 Primary School of Deqin County in Diqing Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, southwest China's Yunnan Province, March 12, 2013. A total of 1,260 pupils, most of whom are of the Tibetan ethnic group, study at this school, which was founded in September 2012. Pupils here are offered free meals and lodging. (Xinhua/Lin Yiguang)

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Pupils of the Tibetan ethnic group play basketball at No. 1 Primary School of Deqin County in Diqing Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, southwest China's Yunnan Province, March 12, 2013. A total of 1,260 pupils, most of whom are of the Tibetan ethnic group, study at this school, which was founded in September 2012. Pupils here are offered free meals and lodging. (Xinhua/Lin Yiguang)

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A kite lover flies a kite at the Fenhe Park during a competition in Taiyuan, capital of north China's Shanxi Province, March 13, 2013. (Xinhua/Zhan Yan)

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Photo shoot of Liu Yan in spring sunshine for new movie

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