Residents occupy a street in downtown Heyuan on Sunday, demanding the government scrap an 8 billion-yuan coal plant. Photo: SCMP Pictures Residents occupy a street in downtown Heyuan on Sunday, demanding the government scrap an 8 billion-yuan coal plant. Photo: SCMP Pictures
Residents occupy a street in downtown Heyuan on Sunday, demanding the government scrap an 8 billion-yuan coal plant. Photo: SCMP Pictures
China /  People & Culture

10,000 protest in Chinese city over planned coal-fired power plant

Big demonstration staged against energy project in northeastern Guangdong, home to reservoir that supplies water to Hong Kong

Mimi Lau
Mimi Lau

Updated: 2:47pm, 15 Apr, 2015

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Residents occupy a street in downtown Heyuan on Sunday, demanding the government scrap an 8 billion-yuan coal plant. Photo: SCMP Pictures Residents occupy a street in downtown Heyuan on Sunday, demanding the government scrap an 8 billion-yuan coal plant. Photo: SCMP Pictures
Residents occupy a street in downtown Heyuan on Sunday, demanding the government scrap an 8 billion-yuan coal plant. Photo: SCMP Pictures
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