Xiping chemical plant also known as more than 1700 villagers from Pingnan in Fujian v. Fujian Rongping Chemicals Country/Territory China Type of court National - higher court Date Apr 15, 2005 Source UNEP, InforMEA Court name Ningde Intermediate People’s Court Seat of court Ningde City, Fujian Province Judge Zheng Zhiqiang; Wu Jialin; Xu Liangzhong Reference number No. 1 (2003), First Instance, Civil Division, Ningde [ (2003) 宁民初字第1号] Language Chinese Subject Land & soil Keyword Hazardous substances Waste management Sustainable use Resource/damage valuation Air quality/air pollution Abstract In this case, the plaintiffs are a collective of villagers from Xiping, Houlong and Xiadi villages complaining that the Rongping chemical factory was responsible for, environmental degradation, crop damages and for an increased in the number of cancer in the region.In 2002 the case was brought in front of the Nindge Intermediate People’s Court. The plaintiffs required that the court order the Fujian Rongpings Chemicals to close its factory, clean the side and nearby ecosystems and compensate the damages made to their crops and their health. The court ruled that the causality link between the pollution and the damages was established and followed the demands of the plaintiffs ordered the closure of the factory and the compensation of the villager. An appeal was brought in front of the Higher Court who upheld the judgement of the Nindge Intermediate People’s Court.(Contribution: Case provided by Professor Tianbao QIN, Tang HE, and Han GAO, Research Institute of Environmental Law, Wuhan University, China) Full text pfnl_117525863.html