A miner's diary
By Lan Tian and Sun Ruisheng | China Daily | Updated: 2010-10-08 08:04
Wang Gang, 24, has followed in the footsteps of his father and grandfather to become a miner in Huairen, a county with dozens of coal mines in coal-rich Shanxi province. Yin Zhiyong / for China Daily |
Despite increasing mechanization, life in the cold, dank, dark interiors of a coal mine remains as tough as ever. Lan Tian and Sun Ruisheng report
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