Huian, Fujian Province, is known as the “hometown of stone carving” in southern China, and is famous for producing statues of gods and Buddhas at home and abroad. At the same time, the productive dust, like the local expanding stone carving economy, diffuses in numerous factories and workshops on a large scale. Workers lack professional protective equipment and work under the dust for a long time, causing pneumoconiosis and other diseases. Nowadays, in Chongwu ancient city, some people spend 770000 yuan to exchange their lungs successfully and extend their lives. There are also elderly patients with pneumoconiosis who can only survive by breathing with oxygen
the craftsmen of Chongwu all have a pair of skillful hands. They use magic to carve hard and heartless stones into delicate shapes, giving life to the cold stones, but they lose their lives in their work. On March 30, 2016, a Hui’an woman makes the final sculpture of the statue< At present, the Post-70s and post-80s are the main labor force in the stone carving industry, and some post-90s are also engaged in this industry. A large amount of dust will be produced in the process of stone carving. Contact or inhalation of dust will stimulate the skin, cornea, mucous membrane, and cause a series of lesions. On March 30, 2016, a worker was using a machine to carve stone in the workshop, and the dust was flying the deafening hum of the machine erodes every nerve in the brain of the participants pneumoconiosis is a cumulative process. The protective equipment of Huian workers a few years ago is no different today a Huian woman is polishing marble. On May 20, 2006, Huian stone carving was approved by the State Council and listed in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage list the picture shows a worker decorating a giant Buddha statue on the street of Chongwu on March 30, 2016. During the process, dust kept falling in a sculpture factory in Chongwu, two statues are covered with vegetables on March 30, 2016, several workers of Huian No.1 stone carving factory went out of the workshop for a rest. After intensive work, they sat on the ground at will, leaning against the stone carving behind them this county, known as the “hometown of stone carvings” in southern China, stretches more than 30 kilometers from the exit of Huian Expressway to Chongwu. A stone carvings are set every 50 meters, and the whole process is full of thousands of stone carvings, which has become a unique local landscape there is a stone carving factory in Chongwu, where the statue of the founding marshal and the statue of Buddha are placed together. There are numerous stone carving factories on both sides of Chongwu road in Hui’an. The wide area in front of the factory is full of finished and semi-finished stone carving products. Traveling in Chongwu will make you feel as if you are in the kingdom of stone in addition to a wide range of types, the diversity of carving materials is also one of the characteristics of Hui’an carving. Huian stone carving materials come from all over the country and more than 30 countries in the world. Whether it is marble, granite, jade or sandstone, craftsmen can turn stone into “gold” the local economy continued to rise due to stone carving, but some local stone carving workers began to be eroded by silicosis. Among the occupational diseases caused by productive dust, pneumoconiosis is the most serious. According to incomplete statistics, pneumoconiosis cases account for about two-thirds of the total number of occupational diseases. 1n recent years, there have been many cases of pneumoconiosis in Hui’an. All of these patients have done sandstone and stone carvings in Yunfu, Guangdong Province. The cause is that they inhaled too much sandstone and lime dust. Wang Yinquan, 72, entered the stone carving factory at the age of about 20, and was diagnosed with dust disease at the age of 65 on the wall of Wang’s house, there are drugs that he takes all the year round. The old man has been treated in several hospitals, but his condition is still not improved. Now the old man has to breathe with oxygen to maintain his life compared with Wang zaiyin, Chen Shijie, who was born in 1983, is fortunate. After finding out the source of the disease a few years ago, his family raised 770000 yuan last year and sent him to Jiangsu hospital for “lung transplantation”. Now his body is gradually recovering. On February 25, 2016, the State Administration of work safety announced that from March 2016 to the end of 2017, it will organize and carry out the special treatment of dust hazards in ceramic production and refractory manufacturing enterprises, so as to control, reduce and eliminate the related hazards, strictly prevent the occurrence of pneumoconiosis, and effectively protect the occupational health rights and interests of workers< On Septembe2, 2016, Chen Shijie sat on the beach. Every afternoon, he would come to Chongwu seaside, and after walking with other patients for a while, he would sit down and breathe the moist air of the seaside. After the surgery, Chen Shijie realized that health is more important than anything