Yanglingang (
simplified Chinese: 杨林岗村;
traditional Chinese: 楊林崗村)[1] is a small
fishing village located on the border between Shanghai and
Jiangsu province,
China.[2] The village has approximately fifty families,[3][4] who obtain their sustenance by fishing and obtaining drinking water from the
Yangtze River, which has significant problems with pollution.[2][3] The village is "surrounded by power plants, paper-making factories, and chemical plants".[3] Village residents live on their boats.[4]
^沁园净水器 (28 July 2014).
"2013年2月,中国政府首次承认了"癌症村"的存在" [In February 2013, the Chinese government for the first time recognized the existence of a so-called "cancer village"]. 柳叶 (Iliuye) (in Chinese). 扬州广播电视总台 (Yangzhou Radio and Television Station). Retrieved 2016-12-24.