Wednesday, December 07, 2005

via: xinmin weekly (in chinese)

the recent issue of xinmin weekly has a special coverage on china's mine disasters. the feature includes articles of following topics:

- to cut off the collaborations between the local officials and mines is more difficult than thought

- a boss of a coal mine: from several thousand RMB per month to 30 million RMB in two years

- to advance official career with higher GDP growth is one of the reasons for local officials to collaborate with mines

- a case study of the official-mine collusion in loudi of hunan province

- the party chief of hunan loudi talks about official-mine collusion

- the last words of a dead mineworker shocked a young man and inspired him to make a "china mine disaster map"

the map indicates the location, death toll, cause of each disaster in 2005 and 2004.

update: 96 Missing in Latest China Mine Disaster Open this result in new window

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