Coal: A Story of China
Mines of all sizes shot up around the country. By the end of 1996, there were over 60,000 mines in operation nationally, of which nearly 90 percent were smallscale mines. A miner hauls a load of coal up to the surface from an underground mine in Guizhou province, southwestern China, Sept. 16, 1996. Yu Wenguo/VCG. The scales had tipped too far.
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