Nationwide hunt for toxic running tracks
CHINESE cities are hunting “toxic” running tracks following reports linking sub-standard facilities to students’ ill-health.
Education authorities in central China’s Changsha, capital of Hunan Province, and Haikou, Hainan’s capital, have ordered the removal of tracks at schools and kindergartens that are found to be substandard.
Construction of new running tracks must be halted pending reassessment, according to Haikou’s education bureau, which has promised severe punishment for acts of corruption and negligence.
North China’s Hebei Province has suspended nine firms producing rubber material and is placing others under scrutiny in response to reports about factories using industrial waste to make material for running tracks.
Last week, the education ministry ordered local authorities to check all new synthetic tracks in schools during the summer break and immediately remove those found problematic.
The call came after pupils at a Beijing primary school reported nosebleeds, dizzy spells and coughs after exposure to the newly renovated tracks, while similar cases in Jiangsu, Guangdong and other provinces also fueled public concerns.
Earlier, China Central Television reported that some tracks contained industrial waste.
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