China: Where the air is like lead
source: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/china-where-the-air-is-like-lead-1833162.html
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China has some of the worst coal mines in the modern world, and its coal industry is the deadliest on earth. In the first half of this year, 1,175 miners were killed in accidents, because of the furious rush to hack out the black stuff and ship it to the surface fast enough to keep the nation's turbo-charged factories pumping out the product.
The disasters are so frequent they barely register in the Western news any more. If any other developed nation lost 100 workers in a single industrial accident, it would be front-page news. But when 104 miners were killed at Xinxing pit under a state-owned mine in Heilongjiang province last week, the fact barely registered
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The disasters are so frequent they barely register in the Western news any more. If any other developed nation lost 100 workers in a single industrial accident, it would be front-page news. But when 104 miners were killed at Xinxing pit under a state-owned mine in Heilongjiang province last week, the fact barely registered
Full report and pictures via link.
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