Response to Business & Human Rights Resource Centre on news report “Residents near Lianzhou power plant found with excessive levels of blood lead”
[A]fter children in Xingzi Town...were found with excessive levels of lead in their blood, in line with the government’s investigations and handling of the incidence, Lianzhou Power Plant shut down its four power units under government instructions. Subsequently, as repair and maintenance work on the devices is carried out during the outage, the company is keeping close contact with the government’s environmental protection department, initiating environmental technology testing and analysis, and actively assisting the local government on various handling tasks...