More than 130 dead pigs dumped in southern Chinese river

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More than 130 dead pigs dumped in southern Chinese river

The decaying bodies of at least 131 dead pigs were found in a major river in China's eastern province of Jiangxi, the official Xinhua news agency said on Wednesday. China's new leadership has identified pollution, long a source of public discontent, as one of its top challenges, and vowed to more strictly police firms that get free rein to pollute from local governments eager to maintain jobs and revenue. Last March, thousands of dead pigs dumped into a river that provides water to Shanghai sparked widespread outrage about environmental degradation, which has been the price of China's rapid economic growth. The water authority in the provincial capital of Nanchang said it found the dead pigs on Saturday in the Ganjiang River, which is a major tributary of the Yangtze.

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