Grass-roots officials in China are learning to counter central policymakers using one of Beijing’s own secret weapons – the watchdog press. Earlier this month in Longyan, a small city in the affluent coastal province...
Read MoreFrom Reuters, via CNN: China has admitted that a drive to get officials to give up their illegal stakes in highly profitable but dangerous coal mines has hit a dead end, stymying the latest campaign to improve the world’s deadliest mining industry. Many officials were keeping their shares, deliberately ignoring orders from Beijing issued last […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters, via Independent Online: China has ordered nearly a third of its thousands of coal mines to halt production and improve safety in the world’s deadliest mining industry, state media said on Wednesday. The latest in a series of crackdowns, which have had little if any effect so far, was reported the same day […]
Read MoreFrom the Standard: In an apparent measure trying to mend fences with China’s aggrieved citizenry, the State Council last week issued a directive ordering government officials withdraw their investment in coal mines. The directive was prompted by widely reported collusion between local officials and entrepreneurs running the Daxing Mine in Guangdong’s Xingning City, where a […]
Read MoreFrom LOCAL 8 :: KFMB Stations, San Diego, California: An explosion in a coal mine Monday in China’s far west killed 41 people, with another 42 still missing, the official Xinhua News Agency said. The blast occurred at 2:30 a.m. in the Shenlong Coal Mine in the Xinjiang region, when about 87 miners were working, […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua,via China Daily: Experts estimate that China will consume 2.2 billion tons of coal by 2010, causing a shortage of 330 million tons, Wang Xianzheng, vice director of the State Administration of Work Safety, said Tuesday at an annual exposition… He said China’s current coal production capacity, with all types of coal mines included, […]
Read MoreFrom Dallas Morning News: In Fushun, a city of 2.3 million, the government workforce has fallen by 380,000 since 2000. Coal mines, construction companies and machinery factories have been pushed into the private sector, where they have shed employees or closed down. Song Xiuling, who sells raw fish and vegetables in an unheated warehouse market, […]
Read MoreFrom the Business Day: “China’s coal shortage is expected to worsen this year as supply fails to keep pace with mounting demand from the country’s rapid industrialisation, state media said Friday. Coal consumption is expected to increase 6.0 percent or 120 million tons to 2.1 billion tons this year, Pu Hongjiu, deputy director of the […]
Read MoreFrom AFP, via Turkish Press: “Fifteen workers died and five are missing after gas explosions at two separate coal mines in China, officials and state media said. Fourteen workers died Sunday in an explosion at a mine in Shilin town in southwest China’s Sichuan province, workplace safety officials said. ”
Read MoreFrom today’s Christian Science Monitor: “When a gas explosion at 7:10 a.m. Sunday left more than 160 Chinese miners trapped thousands of feet underground, the story hit world news shortly after 10. For disaster reporting here, three hours is pure lightening speed. Horrific mining disasters on Oct 20 and Nov. 20 in central China, likewise, […]
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