Chinese villager Wang Xiuzhen, 54, of Xiangnan Village shows her dust covered hands that comes from wiping the thick dust particles that permeates her home from a nearby chemical plant in Zekou Town, Qianjiang City of Hubei Province, China 14 January 2013. Wang says her home is always covered in dust no matter how often she cleans. She suffers from heart and breathing problems due to the pollution from the chemical plant that is just separated from the village by a narrow river. While the heavy smog in Beijing and much of northern China in recent days have caused alarm among residents and renewed scrutiny on the pollution woes of the country, villagers in a small town of Hubei Province have been grappling with severe air, water and noise pollution on a daily basis over the past two years. China's Xinhua news reported 04 January 2013 that more than 60 cancer deaths in various villages of Zekou Town has been caused by the heavy pollution from the chemical industry park nearby. About 20 or more chemical plants built around the villages of Dongtan, Xiangnan, Zhoutan, Sunguai, Qingnian and others over the past two years has created huge increases in noise, air and water pollution. Many villagers complained of intensifying respiratory, heart, skin and circulatory illnesses caused by the pollution and a large spike in cancer diagnoses and deaths since the factories were built. .