I wouldn't even need to test.  I've been to China, and I've seen how they run their chemical facilities.  Every one of you would be appalled.  The good http://news: things are changing.  But I think as long as there are competing interests within the government-owned companies (making money vs. balancing the money and environmental concerns), there will be problems.  There's no way that any EPA-like agency can properly do its job when the state-owned enterprises generate so much moolah for the party.

I can think of no better argument for privatization. 

For all the problems you read about with US manufacturing facilities, the fact is that they are tens of years ahead in how they go about their business.  The western European plants are even better than that.  In fact, I think the model of western European governments setting stringent requirements that the companies then rise to meet ought to be the example. 

This will never happen as long as China is a one-party kleptocracy.