A local villager holds a polluted grapefruit in their hands. All the fruits, vegetables, crops and water are inedible in this area.Xianghe Chemical Plant was built in 2004 near Shuangqiao Village of Liuyang City. The area around this factory, with a radius of about 1.2 kilometers, is heavily polluted via air pollution and water pollution by cadmium. Some victims said that there were 711 people poisoned and 12 deaths. Nowadays the local government sends purified water to each family for free.