Getting to the core of mining tragedy
By Hu Yinan | China Daily | Updated: 2009-02-27 07:40
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Relatives of missing miners wait anxiously for news at a two-storey hostel at Malan, another colliery owned by Xishan Coal and Electricity Power Company in a mountain southwest of Gujiao, Shanxi province, on Monday. Jiang Dong |
On Thursday Feb 19, Shanxi governor Wang Jun declared that the province "had run out of tears" over its disaster-hit mining industry. Three days later, he awoke to find his words could not have been further from the truth.
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