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Jinli Street, Jinshi City, Changde, Hunan.

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Troupes chinoises de l’Armée Nationale Révolutionnaire faisant feu sur les positions japonaises pendant la bataille de Changde – Guerre sino-japonaise –  Hunan – Chine – Novembre 1943

Entre 1941 et 1943, l’unité 731 prit pour cible la région du Hunan pour effectuer des expériences biochimiques à grande échelle pendant les affrontements (peste véhiculée par des puces et armes chimiques).

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CHINESE “SPONGE CITIES”:  I\n China, the government has commissioned the construction of 16 “Sponge Cities” to pilot solutions for the freshwater scarcity and flooding suffered in many cities as a result of rapid urbanisation. Chicago architectural firm UrbanLab was commissioned to design the masterplan for Yangming Archipelago in Hunan province: a new centre within the larger city of Changde, devised as a “new model for the future”.

The area, a low-lying land river basin that experiences heavy rainfall, is regularly flooded. Instead of incorporating defences against water, UrbanLab put space for it to flow at the centre of its urban plan, putting major buildings on islands in an enormous central lake. Canal-lined streets that UrbanLab call “Eco-boulevards” connect the eight districts – the process is visualised in this video.

Source:  Sophie Knight, “Resilient cities:  What would an entirely flood-proof city look like?” The Guardian (25 Sept. 2017)

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Zixing, Changde, Hunan.

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Tour du monde en train, 2007 (1)

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See the stairs? Before building codes, people had all the creative freedom on how to get home. The building ia part of a landmark is called the Changde Poem Wall (常德诗墙). It is a long cultural floodwall located along the Yuanjiang River in Changde, Hunan Province, China. The wall stretches over 3 kilometers and features more than 1,200 poems from different dynasties—including calligraphy and stone carvings from poets both ancient and contemporary.

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Attack on Changde: The Changde Plague Epidemic

“November 4, 1941, Unit 731 again sent out an aerial plague-spreading mission, this time to the city of Changde in Hunan Province, located behind Chinese lines in the interior of the country. A single plane, flying very low, dropped a mixture of plague-infected fleas, bacteria-coated wheat and rice, cotton wads, and pieces of paper. Positioned near an enormous body of water called Lake Tung Ting Hu, Changde had high strategic value as a major commercial center, trans-shipment point, and railway nexus. The mission was directed by Colonel Kiyoshi Ota, who had performed aerial plague-flea-scattering tests on Pingfan prisoners tied to posts, at Unit 731’s outdoor experimental field at Anda.

On the November morning of the attack, the Changde air raid sirens blared, but city residents were surprised to see only a single plane in the air. The plane dropped a mixture of bacteria-coated wheat and rice, cotton wads, pieces of paper, and what China’s National Health Administration investigators referred to as ‘unidentified particles.’ The Khabarovsk testimony of General Kiyoshi Kawashima reveals that, in addition to the unloading of this mixture, fleas were also sprayed. The Imoto Diary, corroborating the Khabarovsk information, states that a total of 36 kilograms of plague fleas were sprayed over Changde at this time. A few days later, the first human plague fatality occurred: an eleven-year-old girl named Tao-erh Tsai. She died of plague at the Changde Presbyterian missionary hospital, within three days of initially collapsing with a high fever. Six more Changde residents die of plague that week before a medical investigation team of plague specialists arrived in Changde, headed by Dr. Wen-Kwei Chen, a consultant to the Chinese Red Cross Medical Relief Corps, and the director of a university department of laboratory medicine. Based upon blood tests, organ examinations, and animal studies, they quickly concluded that the bubonic plague outbreak under way in the city had been caused by the November 4 germ bombing of the Japanese plane.

The Changde plague epidemic spread through the city and beyond to eventually encompass hundreds of neighboring villages. A comprehensive research survey, conducted in the 1990s over the course of seven years, found that at least 7,643 people died of plague in that epidemic, based upon approximately 30,000 separate interviews with local residents.

The Chinese government held a press conference in April 1942 in Chongqing to announce the Chen Report’s findings that the Japanese had engaged in biological warfare. It was the first official accusation by a government that a Japanese BW program existed.”

Barenblatt, Daniel. (2004). A plague upon humanity: the secret genocide of Axis Japan's germ warfare operation. HarperCollins. p. 143-144.

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Vehicle Crash in Central China Injures Students Near Elementary School

Tragic Incident in Central China A man drove a vehicle into a crowd of people near an elementary school in central China on Tuesday, resulting in multiple injuries among students. This incident marks what appears to be the third major attack in the country within just over a week. According to a statement from the police in Changde, a city located in Hunan Province, fortunately, none of the…

Vehicle Crash in Central China Injures Students Near Elementary School