Coal Industry Faces Slowdown, Layoffs [Updated]
Recent government statistics indicate that China has been burning 17 percent more coal a year than...
miners
Dying to Breathe: China’s True Cost of Gold
Many miners in China develop pneumoconiosis, also known as “black lung disease.” Gold...
Coal Addiction Brings Scourge of Black Lung
China is by far the world’s largest consumer of coal, using more of the fossil fuel than the...
Three Chinese Miners Rescued in Hunan
Chinese state media has reported that a gas explosion in Hunan has killed seven people. Mining accidents in China occur frequently, and reports claim that the official death toll over the past ten years has reached over 47,000....
Documentary: To the Light
To the Light, a documentary about miners in Sichuan Province, has won the Margaret Mead Filmmaker Award. From the Huffington Post: The visually lyrical and heartbreaking film, which won the Mead’s prestigious award this...
22 Rescued from Flooded Illegal Mine
22 miners have safely emerged from an illegal mine in north-eastern China after a week trapped underground. Another man’s body was recovered, while three remain missing. From the BBC: The miners became trapped in the...
China Hails ‘Miracle’ Rescue of More than 100 Trapped Miners
In what could have been the worst mining disaster in two years, more than 100 miners have been rescued from the Wangjialing pit in Shanxi after being trapped for eight days. From the Guardian: In a country where seven workers a...
Two More Bodies Recovered From Massive China Landslide
In a continuation on the story of the landslide in Chongqing reported a few days ago, Xinhua has found two more bodies and lists the death toll at nine, though earlier the state radio reported 72 missing and 26 dead: The death...
China Landslide Rescue Efforts Underway; 26 Dead
Rescue workers are searching for survivors after a landslide buried an iron-ore mine in southwestern China near Chongqing city, Sichuan province. State media has confirmed 26 dead, 8 injured, and 74 missing. From IOL: Hundreds...
Shaft Of Light For China’s Coalminers
From The Age: Xiao Huazhong’s lungs are letting him down. The former coalminer from China’s Sichuan province has third-stage pneumoconiosis, or “black lung disease”, and even the five-minute walk from the...
Documentary Director Hu Jie: Documenting the Lives of Miners
Guangzhou based journalist/blogger Zhai Minglei just published a profile of independent film maker Hu Jie on his own Yibao blog, partially translated by CDT’s Linjun Fan: Hu Jie calls himself a film laborer. He has shot a...
More Mine Disasters, When Will This End?
According to official figures, more than 4700 coal miners died in China last year. But independent labor groups put the real toll at closer to 20,000 annually. It has become so routine that hardly anyone notices anymore. Here is...
The Saturday Profile: Carving Plight of Coal Miners, He Churns China – Howard W. French
The New York Times sculptor Zhang Jianhua, whose work portraying coal miners has not been welcomed by the authorities: Although Mr. Zhang, 35, has an impeccable background as a student of the Central Academy of Fine Arts and has received critical praise for years, no Chinese museum or established gallery has been willing to display […]
The Student Bloggers Down In The Coal Mine – EastSouthWestNorth
EastSouthWestNorth translated following article from China Education News Network (JYB.com.cn): The Decision Makers and the Students: A Special Conversation Initiated By A Blog. April 2, 2007. March 12: Five students including Cao Yu (ÊõπÊ∏ù) from the Hunan Normal University’s School of Literature published the blog post <Factors that influence the psychological sense of safety among […]
Photo: A miner at the Jin Hua Gong mine in Datong
A miner at the Jin Hua Gong mine in Datong, by lhoon
Testament of a Coal Mine Worker – Li Daguang
As we read about yet more mining accidents, here is a moving testimony to the dangers China’s miners face every day. Legal Daily carried the testimony — Testament of a Coal Mine Worker — via Cultural Vision on...
China mining fatalities rise
From AFP, via NEWS.com.au: CHINA recorded some 2700 mining fatalities in the first half of the year, with major accidents involving up to 29 fatalities more than doubling during the period, state press reported today. Some 2672 miners died in Chinese mines during the first six months of the year, a 3.3 per cent rise […]
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