From xinhua, via China Daily: China will shut down additional 7,000 small coal mines to bring their total number below 10,000 before 2008, a senior official with the State Administration of Work Safety (SAWS) said on Thursday. Li Yizhong, the chief of SAWS, said at a conference on coal mine safety that the number of […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhuanet (link) China will close all small coal mines with annual production capacity under 30,000 tons by the end of 2007, the national coal mine safety authority said. At a video-conference on work safety held Monday, Zhao Tiechui, director of the State Administration of Coal Mine Safety, said China will step up rectification of […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua: China to close down 70 percent of small-sized coal mines by 2010 and shut all down by 2015, the Ministry of Land and Resources said here Wednesday. China now has about 24,000 small coal mines with an annual production output ranging from 10,000 tons to 30,000 tons each, accounting for 70 percent of […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua, via Morningstar: When a new law takes effect Jan. 1, China’s coal mines will have to post “safety bonds” to finance possible payouts in the event of miner deaths in a mishap, as well as other accident-related expenses, the Xinhua News Agency reported. Coal mines with an annual production capacity of 30,000-90,000 metric […]
Read MoreFrom Bloomberg, via The Financial Express: China, the world’s largest coal producer, plans to halt production at 8,648 coal mines in 25 provinces by the end of this year, about 1,000 more than estimated in August, to boost competitiveness and safety. The government wants to reduce the number of small mines operating with outdated equipment […]
Read MoreFrom the Washington Post: Under cover of darkness, hundreds of trucks brimming with coal crawl along the main street of this river town on the southeast corner of Borneo, a column of headlights burning through billowing dust. The nightly procession starts about two hours after sunset and presses on until dawn as the trucks ferry […]
Read MoreFrom People’s Daily: Coal mining will soon cease to exist as an industry in south China’s Guangdong Province. In the wake of the Daxing Coal Mine flooding in Xingning in Guangdong in early August, which killed 123 miners, the provincial government has already shut down 112 mines because they lacked the required production or work […]
Read MoreFrom China Daily: In the wake of the Daxing Coal Mine flooding in Xingning, almost half of the coalmines in Guangdong Province were forced to shut down due to safety and environmental concerns, sources with the Guangdong Provincial Bureau of Work Safety said. A total of 112 coal mines out of 253 small and medium-sized […]
Read MoreFrom People’s Daily: “The State Administration of Work Safety reports that in the first nine months of 2004, 4,153 people died in mining accidents, a figure that the administration admits may be low because of cover-ups or inaccurate reporting. Reports of coal mine accidents are so frequent they seem commonplace, but the quick succession of […]
Read MoreAfter a decades-long infrastructure spending spree, many of China’s local governments now find themselves saddled with unsustainable levels of debt and a surplus of vastly ambitious but often underutilized infrastructure...
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