The Number
China Daily | Updated: 2012-09-20 07:50
20,000
Mines
China will shut down about 20,000 illegal and unsafe mines by 2015, Yang Dongliang, director of the State Administration of Work Safety, said on Wednesday at a conference on mining safety. There are more than 90,000 non-coal mines across China, 95 percent of which are small mines.
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