From Reuters, via The Washington Post:
China has suspended a senior provincial safety official after a coal mine explosion killed 214 people and outlined a series of measures aimed at cleaning up the world’s deadliest mining industry, state media said on Thursday.
Liu Guoqiang, vice-minister of the northeastern province of Liaoning responsible for industrial safety, lost his job after a meeting of China’s cabinet to improve work safety chaired by Premier Wen Jiabao.
The mine blast at a colliery in Liaoning owned by the state-owned Fuxin Coal Industry Group earlier this month was China’s worst in half a century.