Citizens In Ningbo City, China, Refuse To Disperse Despite Gov’t Promise Not To Expand Local Petrochmical Factory

A road sweeper cleans up near Chinese paramilitary police after protesters were forced to leave the area outside the city government office in Zhejiang province’s Ningbo city, Sunday, Oct. 28, 2012. After a weekend of protests by thousands of citizens over pollution fears, a local Chinese government relented Sunday and agreed that a petrochemical factory would not be expanded, only to see the protesters refuse to halt their demonstration.

Chinese security personnel guard the entrance to the city government office where residents gathered to protest the expansion of a petrochemical factory in Zhejiang province’s Ningbo city, Sunday, Oct. 28, 2012. <AP Photo/Ng Han Guan>