Government Provides Outline of Major Restructuring Plan
A new proposal put before the National People’s Congress realigns the structure of the...
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Latest9 Detained After Jiangxi Construction Collapse
Following the collapse of a scaffolding platform that took the lives of 74 construction workers at...
Industrial Accidents Continue One Year After Tianjin Blasts
A deadly steam pipe explosion at a coal-fired power plant in Dangyang, Hubei killed at least 21...
Landslide Renews Questions on Risks of Rapid Growth
On Monday, rescue work continued at an industrial park in Shenzhen a day after a massive landslide...
Dozens Missing After Landslide in Shenzhen
Citing Chinese state media, the BBC reports that at least 59 are missing after a landslide buried...
Tianjin: Journalism Stands as Official Line Stumbles
A week on from a series of explosions in the port area of Tianjin, the confirmed death toll stands...
Dying to Breathe: China’s True Cost of Gold
Many miners in China develop pneumoconiosis, also known as “black lung disease.” Gold...
China’s Workers: Striking, Divided, Poisoned
The Associated Press’ Didi Tang describes the gathering momentum of worker strikes across...
Dust Blast Explosion Death Toll Nearly Doubles
The official death toll for the deadly August explosion at a Jiangsu factory has nearly doubled...
Apple Hosting User Data on China-based Servers
Reuters’ Gerry Shih and Paul Carsten report that Apple has started storing data for Chinese...
Could Stronger Unions Make China More Democratic?
Earlier this month, an explosion at a metal works factory in Kunshan, Jiangsu, which makes car...
Plant in Fatal Blast Described as Dusty Deathtrap
Following the Kunshan Zhongrong Metal Products factory blast that killed at least 75 workers and...
Explosion Kills Dozens at Eastern China Plant
An explosion on Saturday has killed at least 68 people and injured more than 180 others at...
Jilin Slaughterhouse Fire Raises Safety Concerns
The death toll from a fire at a Jilin slaughterhouse on Monday has risen to at least 120, prompting the detention of a senior official at the plant’s operator, anger on the part of bereaved relatives, and a call from the...
More Than 60 Killed in Jilin Slaughterhouse Fire
A fire at a Jilin poultry slaughterhouse early on Monday morning killed at least 61 people, according to Xinhua: Over 300 workers were in the plant when the accident happened, survivors told Xinhua, adding they heard a sudden...
Political Connections Linked to Higher Worker Death Rates
At Bloomberg Businessweek, Christina Larson examines a previously featured study which found a strong correlation between executives’ political connections and higher death rates among employees. Coal mining in China is...
Worker Deaths Linked to Political Connections
Fatal accidents are five times more frequent at Chinese companies with political connections, new research claims. The finding adds weight to accusations that executives’ political ties allow them to get away with placing...
Workers Killed in Blast at China Plant of iPad Maker Foxconn
More tragedy for Foxconn workers, as an explosion at a Chengdu plant killed two workers and injured at least ten. From the Guardian: A spokesman for the company said people had been injured in a fire at the plant but that it had...
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