Massive plan to monitor Shanxi sinkholes

A villager uses basins and buckets to catch rain leaking from the roof at her home in Xiaoyi, North China's Shanxi province, July 15, 2013. Due to coal extraction, more than 300 hectares of land including farms, forest and barren mountain has been mined. Yuan Chunqing, a deputy of the National People's Congress and Party chief of Shanxi, said the province will conduct monitoring of sinkholes in coal mining areas at a cost of 24 billion yuan. The whole project is due to be finished by 2020. [Photo/Xinhua]

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