Pollution in the village of Qiugang, a suburb of Bengbu, was the subject of the 2010 film The Warriors of Qiugang, an 83rd Academy Awards nominee.
The release in 2010 of a documentary called The Warriors of Qiugang: A Chinese Village Fights Back, chronicles how the 1876 village residents of Qiugang (仇 岗) mobilized themselves to stop the local factory Jiucailuo from producing pesticides and herbicides which severely affected their living conditions.