I highly doubt this~ if environental protection have all been taken well, China would not be as polluted as it is now and the chinese themselves won't be protesting all across the cities.
The fact that it is located in Myanmar which has less enforcement capabilities only add to the doubtness.
First you need know what is PX(para-xylene),in China it is described by some media as highly toxic and carcinogenic substance,people are afraid and they do not want these factories
near their home,They protested,and the government listened and cancelled the projects,
which forces China to import most of PX from South Korea and Japan(and yes,there are proofs showed that some journalists received money from those foreign companies and after Chinese govenment decided to postpone PX projects in China those Korean and Japanese companies raised the price.)
I admit pollution in some places of China(Most in North China and some industrial cities) is severe but we also know it is the path that inevitable for a developing country which is on her way to full industrialization(
This country is the largest industrial country in the world and the world factory,so no surprise pollution is a severe problem here) ,Every developed countries like UK,US,Japan,Germany etc had walked the same path。
You have to choose between something, Everyone wants a decent life like the developed countries
but most of them can only see the result those countries are rich and clean and almost no pollution
(They moved those high-polluting factories out of their own country to China or other developing countries),they dont have the brains to think what those developed countries had done thus make
themselves a developed country。
As a developing country that has no ability to invade and rob the other countries just like those developed countries did in the past, you have to sell your resource to gain the capital to develop yourself。of course you can hold you resource and breath the fresh air with no running water no electricity and with your stomach empty, But Chinese wont, we know our goals and we know what
we will gain and what we will lost in the path we have chosen,and of course we know finally we
can solve the pollution and make our environment as good as the west,20 years later or maybe
even earlier,we will achieve our goals。