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And as the protest in Wukan ends, another one is flaring up in the same province. In Haimen, people are fuming over the plan to build a new coal-based power plant. Construction has been put on hold, but villagers want the projects canned.

Protests in a small town in China appear to have escalated on Thursday, with residents smashing cars and hurling bricks even though officials sought to calm tempers by suspending a plan to build a power plant.

Residents of Haimen, furious with plans to build a coal-fired power plant, took to the streets on Tuesday, surrounding a government building and blocking an expressway.

Officials agreed to suspend the project this week, but residents refused to back down, demanding the plan be scrapped.

Outside a large and closed petrol station near a highway into Haimen, about 100 men on motorbikes watched a wall of riot police armed with batons and shields, blocking the highway.

Government officials have been vague and have appeared to play down the unrest, saying there were injuries but no deaths.

The people say they don't want another power plant because existing power facilities are already polluting air and seawater and have greatly reduced their catch at sea.