Liaoyang

In 2002, tens of thousands of workers in the city of Liaoyang rallied to demand the removal of corrupt officials who’d closed their factories.

They eventually bowed to many of the protesters’ demands, even jailing the corrupt officials in Liaoyang, leading protests to gradually disperse.

One of the officials is Zheng Weihong, a former head of banking and insurance regulator in Liaoyang city.

On Sep. 24, twenty-three people in Liaoyang, an hour south of Shenyang, were hospitalized with gas poisoning after power cuts at a steel casting company.

In the northeastern city of Liaoyang, 23 people were hospitalized with gas poisoning after ventilation in a metal casting factory was shut off following a power outage, according to state broadcaster CCTV.