In Guiyu Township, Chaoyang County, Guangdong, the average yield for potato is 9.75 t/ha and for winter sweetpotato yield is about 17.25 t/ha.
2002, Jim Puckett, 5:35 from the start, in Exporting Harm: The High-Tech Trashing of Asia[2], spoken by Mary Ryan, Basel Action Network, →OCLC:
Following up news articles and e-mails from mainland China, BAN was directed to an e-waste processing area known as Guiyu on the Longdong River near the city of Shantou in the northeast [of] Guangdong Province, four hours by car from Hong Kong. In the course of three intensive days in and around Guiyu's four villages, the small investigative team witnessed firsthand what passes for recycling of e-waste in Asia.
In the southern Chinese city of Guiyu—one of the places in Asia where this primitive recycling takes place—an estimated 80 percent of the city’s 150,000 residents are engaged in processing the million or more tons of electronic waste that have been arriving there each year since the mid-1990s.
Until recently, the Chinese village of Guiyu, in the southern province of Guangdong, based its economy on rice cultivation. Since 1995, however, Guiyu has become a booming e-waste village.
2012, Francis Ọlajíde Adeọla, “Electronic Waste: The Detritus of the High-Tech Revolution”, in Industrial Disasters, Toxic Waste, and Community Impacts: The Health Effects and Environmental Justice Struggles around the Globe[5], Lexington Books, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 106:
As noted by Leung et al. (2008:2675), the extraction of electrical components and solder recovery from circuit boards are carried out mainly in family-run shops in residential areas. In fact, circuit board components liter the roads in Beilin district and other parts of Guiyu.
2013, Gene J.S. Zheng, Liping Jiao, Anna O.W. Leung, Yeqing Huang, Tingting You, Ming Hung Wong, “Polybrominated Diphenyl Ethers in China: Sources, Trends, and Their Adverse Impacts on Human Health”, in Ming H. Wong, editor, Environmental Contamination[6], CRC Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 118:
The recycling of e-waste in Guiyu, a small town in the southeastern part of Guangdong Province, China (Figure 7.1), has been undertaken by migrant workers using primitive and environmentally unacceptable techniques to separate recoverable electronic components, mainly from computers, since the late 1980s and early 1990s (Leung et al. 2007).
2017 January 15, Stephen Wright, “Gadget mountain rising in Asia threatens health, environment”, in AP News[7], archived from the original on 18 May 2022:
Guiyu, a heavily-polluted rural town in China that specializes in dismantling consumer electronics, some of it exported from rich countries, has become synonymous with the costs of a throwaway high-tech world. China has cleaned up Guiyu and other centers like it but the Basel Action Network, which brought Guiyu to international attention, said most of the dangerous practices continue in Guiyu albeit concentrated within a new industrial park on its outskirts.
2018 January 23, David Stanway, “China trash town's cleanup bolstered by import ban”, in Reuters[8], archived from the original on December 24, 2019:
GUIYU, China (Reuters) - The dizzying stench of burning plastic still drifts through the alleys, workshops and warehouses of Guiyu, the southern Chinese town that has long symbolized China’s role as the main recycler of the world’s waste.[...]In the 2000s, Guiyu became a symbol of the environmental devastation caused by recycling hazardous waste with little regulation after being singled out by groups like Greenpeace and featuring in a string of international media reports. Trash is still the mainstay of Guiyu’s economy, but hundreds of recycling businesses have been consolidated or shut completely in recent years and authorities are now cracking down on smuggled waste, further starving small and polluting businesses of supplies. “Although the dismantling of old electronics is the leading industry in Guiyu, we should say it was more a profession than an industry,” said Zheng Jinxiong, vice chairman of a government commission tasked with running the recycling industry park, set up on the edge of town.
2021 March 9, Yi-Ling Liu, “Sci-Fi Writer or Prophet? The Hyperreal Life of Chen Qiufan”, in Wired.com[9], archived from the original on 09 March 2021:
Before writing his debut novel, The Waste Tide, a 2013 eco-thriller about a workers’ uprising in a futuristic dump called Silicon Isle, Chen spent time in the southeastern city of Guiyu, one of the world’s largest dumping grounds for electronic waste, observing migrant workers toil in the toxin-laden trash.
