Beth Walker 08.04.2016 Our pick of some of the recent films on China and the environment, and a few classics thrown in (Still from the 2006 film Behemoth ) The Road (2015) Independent film maker Zhang Zangbo spend three years embedded in a construction company in central China’s Hunan province. The result is a powerful and shocking insight into the human and environmental costs of China’s infrastructure boom. Zhang documents the corruption and abuse behind the construction of a stretch of the provincial highway by local officials and gangsters. It centres around protagonist Mr Meng – company vice president and “problem solver”– as he deals with injured workers demanding compensation; local people whose homes are destroyed, their family graves dug up, sacred trees and Buddhist temples flattened; local thugs demanding payment; and communist officials inspecting unsafe construction work. This film is particularly poignant at a time when China’
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