From the chinese press
China Daily | Updated: 2010-04-07 07:58
Forgetting nation's miners
On March 31, three days after the Wangjialing mining accident in which 153 miners were trapped underground, a gas explosion jolted a coalmine in Yichuan county, Henan province, and buried about 35 miners. The tragic accidents show that miners are being neglected under the current growth-oriented development model, argues an article in the Oriental Morning Post. Excerpts:
In very short order, tragic incidents have struck a large State-owned mine in Wangjialing and a small private mine in Yichuan. In both incidents, the managers or owners of the mines were disregarding the safety of miners.
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