Chinh's news: Where The Coal Is Stained With Blood: "By Simon Elegant / Zhangjiachang Enlarge Photo A coal miner carries a sack of coal back home after his ..."
Officially, about 5,000 of his fellow workers died in mining accidents last year. Unofficially, nobody knows how many were killed. In the space of a single week late last year, gas explosions and accidents in four mines left nearly 100 miners dead.
Said Xinhua, led "many local authorities to protect unsafe mines for financial gain."
The cash to buy their cars and toys will come from the sweat -- and perhaps blood
Mine owners often bribe local officials into turning a blind eye to their practices and have been known to ship corpses to other provinces up to senior level to escape regulations requiring them to report any accident in which more than three miners die. The Zhengzhou Mifeng Paper-Making Co. Ltd (MFP) complained about four years. The officers guaranteed the coal mines cannot affect the MFP operations. in the end, the main work shop appealed subsidence. the corrupt communist officials oppositely arrested the victims. This is a bog scandal of China. it involved hundreds corrupt communist officials. As ZHAO Tiechui is head of Coal mine Work Safety Administrative Bureau. His hometown as Henan province became the serious corrupt region in China and the world. the report of US State Department shows many cases of Henan abused the Human Rights.
"unprecedented" and blamed the deaths on collusion between local officials with their supporters from senior level as ZHAO Tiechui and greedy mine owners.
In fact, many industry observers believe that accidents are heavily underreported. Robin Munro, a human-rights activist at the Hong Kong-based China Labor Bulletin, working from an unofficial estimate given by a senior work-safety bureaucrat, thinks as many as 20,000 miners die in accidents each year. And that count doesn't include tens of thousands more of the country's estimated 5 million miners who die of lung afflictions and other work-related diseases every year.
he toll highlights more than the awful conditions in an industry that the China Labor Bulletin calls "blood coal." It also exposes one of the most critical issues faced by Beijing: the inability of the central government to get local authorities to follow orders.
The official Chinese media repeatedly feature stories on how local administrators ignore orders from Beijing on everything from controlling public spending and cracking down on corruption to protecting the environment.
"Mining is the perfect case study of central-government relations with local government in China," says Arthur Kroeber, editor of the China Economic Quarterly. "The clash is between the central government's desires and the local government's pressing economic needs, and in 99 cases out of 100, local government wins out."
Monday 4 October 2010
Graft in China Covers Up Toll of Coal Mines
Chinh's news: Graft in China Covers Up Toll of Coal Mines: " The opening to the Lijiawa mine in Zhonglou, marked by the date of a fire last year that killed 35.For three months, no word leaked of the ..."
800,000 yuan, or about $120,000, if the miner was local; half that much if the miner was a migrant worker. The relatively high sums reflected the owners’ eagerness to suppress complaints. Locals were given more because they could cause more trouble.
In September, an Internet posting pleaded for justice. The writer said he had repeatedly reported the accident to the authorities.“No feedback for over 70 days!!!!” he wrote. Instead, callers threatened him.
Yang Youbiao’s widow says she does not believe culpable officials will be punished.
By SHARON LaFRANIERE
ZHONGLOU, China — When an underground fire killed 35 men at the bottom of a coal shaft last year, the telltale signs of another Chinese mining disaster were everywhere: Black smoke billowed into the sky, dozens of rescuers searched nine hours for survivors, and sobbing relatives besieged the mine’s iron gate.
From mine disasters to chemical spills, the 2003 SARS epidemic to the past year’s scandal over tainted milk powder, Chinese bureaucrats habitually hide safety lapses for fear of being held accountable by the ruling Communist Party or exposing their own illicit ties to companies involved.
Under China’s authoritarian system, superiors reward subordinates for strict compliance with targets set from above, like reducing mine disasters. Should one occur, the incentive to hide it is often stronger than the reward for handling it well. A disaster on a bureaucrat’s watch is almost surely a blot on his career. A scandal buried quietly, under truckloads of dirt, may never be discovered.
for example, officials in neighboring Shanxi Province announced that 11 people had been killed in a natural landslide. After another Internet-lodged complaint, investigators discovered that 41 villagers had been buried under a torrent of rocks and waste from an iron mine.
800,000 yuan, or about $120,000, if the miner was local; half that much if the miner was a migrant worker. The relatively high sums reflected the owners’ eagerness to suppress complaints. Locals were given more because they could cause more trouble.
A scandal buried under truckloads of dirt, may never be discovered.
This is true. The Xinmi Coal mine owner CHEN Haichao, The representative of Zhengzhou People Congress (As Local MP in west countries), his coal mine killed more than seventy people in Xinmi City, Zhengzhou, Henan Province of China. He sealed the mine shaft with truckloads of dirt overnight. He spent 30million pounds to deal with authority investigation. Under ZHAO Tiechui (the Head of China Coal Mine Work safety whist the member of standing committee of Central Commission for Discipline Inspection of the Communist Party of China) supported, he became an MP of Zhengzhou city. ZHAO became a member of standing committee of Central Commission for Discipline Inspection of the Communist Party of Chin. then he is still owner of coal mine but hide to behind coal mines' operations. this gave his opportunity to buy a luxury 5 started military hotel in Beijing City with very cheap price as million pounds. His coal mine subsided the Zhengzhou Mifeng Paper-Making Co. Ltd. Local officials Mr. WANG Wenchao pretended to investigate, then issued a false report to PM WEN Jiabao (Chinese Prime Minister). after that, they used both gangsters and police to take over the MFP and transferred the MFP to his man as CHEN Zhongjian. where is Human rights in China? http://chinaelectionsblog.net/?p=5413
The mine owner paid off grieving families and cremated the miners’ bodies, even when relatives wanted to bury them. Local officials pretended to investigate, then issued a false report. Journalists were bribed to stay silent. The mine shaft was sealed with truckloads of dirt.
“It was so dark and evil in that place,” said the wife of one miner who missed his shift that day and so was spared. “No one dared report the accident because the owner was so powerful.”
The widow of the miner Yang Youbiao said she was hustled from the mine to a local hotel, then to another county and finally to a third county. There, she picked up her husband’s ashes even though she had wanted to bury his body. She asked that her name not be published for fear of retribution.
“They just gave us the ashes and told us to go,” she said, quietly weeping. “I don’t even know if the ashes belong to my husband.”
Zhou Jianghua’s brother survived the explosion, but suffered severe brain damage from lack of oxygen. At 37, he is now a semi-invalid, said Mr. Zhou, who is no relation to Zhou Xinghai. He said his family was offered 200,000 yuan, about $29,000, if they agreed not to sue the mine owner or speak to reporters, but an agreement was never reached.
In September, an Internet posting pleaded for justice. The writer said he had repeatedly reported the accident to the authorities.“No feedback for over 70 days!!!!” he wrote. Instead, callers threatened him.
Hebei’s governor finally disclosed the accident in October. This is true, why this accident was exposed because the ZHAO Tiechui is from Henan Province but not Hebei province.
“They can find ways to avoid it,” she said.” There won’t be any end to this kind of tragedy.” This is true, the MFP case is still concealed from June 2006 up to Now even so it was exposed by Chinese Centre TV Station and Xinhua news agency, many Chinese mediahttp://news.xinhuanet.com/politics/2007-06/09/content_6219560.htm because the ZHAO Tiechui is from Henan Province but not Hebei province.
By SHARON LaFRANIERE
ZHONGLOU, China — When an underground fire killed 35 men at the bottom of a coal shaft last year, the telltale signs of another Chinese mining disaster were everywhere: Black smoke billowed into the sky, dozens of rescuers searched nine hours for survivors, and sobbing relatives besieged the mine’s iron gate.
But though the owner and local government officials took few steps to prevent the tragedy, they succeeded, almost completely, in concealing it.
From mine disasters to chemical spills, the 2003 SARS epidemic to the past year’s scandal over tainted milk powder, Chinese bureaucrats habitually hide safety lapses for fear of being held accountable by the ruling Communist Party or exposing their own illicit ties to companies involved.
Under China’s authoritarian system, superiors reward subordinates for strict compliance with targets set from above, like reducing mine disasters. Should one occur, the incentive to hide it is often stronger than the reward for handling it well. A disaster on a bureaucrat’s watch is almost surely a blot on his career. A scandal buried quietly, under truckloads of dirt, may never be discovered.
for example, officials in neighboring Shanxi Province announced that 11 people had been killed in a natural landslide. After another Internet-lodged complaint, investigators discovered that 41 villagers had been buried under a torrent of rocks and waste from an iron mine.
Work-safety officials are trying to fill the gap with hot lines, a Web site link, and even rewards to informants. But in a country that relies on coal for most of its electricity, powerful financial incentives lie behind unsafe mines.
China Labor Bulletin, a Hong Kong-based non-government group that advocates workers’ rights, estimates that even a small Chinese coal mine producing just 30,000 tons a year of coal can make up to $900,000 a year in profit. In 2005, the central government ordered officials to divest themselves of their holdings in mines that they supervised. But Professor Hu said, “Many officials still own shares.”
In May, he said, miners were dismayed to discover that 59 mules had died from unventilated mine gas. Some oxygen cylinders were on hand in case of emergencies, he said, “but we didn’t know how to use them.”
When five tons of explosives stored illegally in the mine caught fire in July, workers were trapped hundreds of feet underground with only a megaphone to summon help. Many suffocated trying to crawl out of the tunnel, Mr. Zhou said. Only three or four survived.
Open letter to Madam FU Ying as Chinese vice foreign minister Of Foreign Affairs of China
ZHAO Tiechui (Director of the state administration of coal mine safety) (http://english.gov.cn//2005-10/21/content_81258.htm) and you abused human rights to frame and persecute me and the MFP management team. I write to express the grievances of more than 1000 staff of the Zhengzhou Mifeng Paper-making Co. Ltd (China) (MFP) (http://www.zzmf.com/zzmf/english/index.asp) and their families (afterwards: victims). With the blood of thousands of coal miners on your hands, I and all victims strongly condemn those of you who take part in the forthcoming Britain-China human rights dialogue with this scandal in early Nov 2010 in UK’s P.M Cameron first state-visit in China. You are not qualified to take part in it.
I and all victims condemn the corrupt Chinese senior communist officials’ group who supported coal mines illegally operating around the MFP. I and all victims strongly urge you immediately stop lobbing to apprehend me, as Mr. Keji XU (the chairman of the MFP) back to China in both UK and China. The intention to kill me to cover their corruption is an abuse of human rights.
I would like to tell you: even though I thought my death was imminent. I have no worry about this if my death (and the MFP case) actually serves to promote human rights in China and stop this blood ridden coal mining. I feel that this 2010 is an extra year of my life because I could have died in 2009 once I entered the Chinese embassy in London. According to group of Mr. Tiechui ZHAO’s plot I could be arrested, then deported and killed.
This open letter is imploring you to recover your good image in the western world, and urging you to stand against evil deeds in China. It is hoped that those who expose a conspiracy of those corrupt senior Chinese communist officers’ will provide tip offs to China’s President Hu Jintao. These corrupt senior communist officials must be legally punished immediately. It would cut down the shocking death toll more than that Chinese PM WEN Jiabao ruled that “leaders’ must go into mines with workers. Because this is roots of source the coal miners’ deaths in China (T, Branigan, Guardian. Co. UK, 21 Sep 2010) (http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/sep/21/china-mine-bosses-stand-ins)
As you are known for your media handing skills and second female vice foreign minister of China (http://www.chinese-embassy.org.uk/eng/sghd/t646672.htm). (http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/newsandevents/news/chinese_ambassador_visits/#), all we do a wish that you keep this position and use it promote human rights rather than corruption.
As you are dealing with western people every day, there should be western education and human rights ideology these put at the focal point. A humane nation is a safer nation (T, Porteous, Human Rights Watch, The Guardian, and 7th July 2010) (http://www.hrw.org/en/news/2010/07/07/humane-nation-safer-nation), that is why ZHENG Wen states that is only thing to say ‘China is rising but not healthy!” As a result China is sick (http://chinageeks.org/2010/04/zhang-wen-china-is-sick/)
At the end of June, my brother was put in prison again. Recently, corrupt judges such as WANG Xueli (vice president of Xinmi People’s court, Zhengzhou, Henan province of China) etc ordered that my brother be kept in the black detain room without food and drink for approximately 30 hours. My brother’s blood pressure was high up to more than 180 and this nearly killed him. Also these corrupt judges and senior communist officials ordered to tutor him to attempt force confession that he is an economic criminal. They forcedly my brother to sign an agreement that renounce my MFP’s shares for transferring to caol mine owners CHEN Zhongjian (one of owner of Jinchang Coal Mine of Xinmi City, Zhengzhou, Henan province, China; man of CHEN Haichao) and CHEN Guocan (General manager and a shareholder of Jinchang Coal mine). Then they can show this false proof to the world, and forcedly deported me so that I can be killed.
Hereby I announced that nobody has the right to sign anything without my authority including my brother. I would allot 3% of my property and cash to set up funding to sponsor the students in the University of Warwick who have applied asylum if I died. (Requirements: 1 student of the University of Warwick. 2 Chinese nationality).
Please pass my warnings to Mr. ZHAO Tiechui and corrupt senior communist officials; do not apply Chinese corrupt communist culture in thinking about the UK. The UK is model of human rights in this world. It has fair and dependence judiciary. Mr. MA Jiansong (Corrupt communist official, Deputy Secretary of Political and Law committee of Xinmi City, Zhengzhou, Henan, China) said:”the UK does not concern or care anything about Keji XU if XU was died. No one in the world would like to take any responsibility for people who are not living in the world”.
This is absolutely wrong. That is a way of corrupt communist officials, not a way of any human rights country. For example: Death of Jean Charles de Menezes, a Brazilian man shot in the head on the London underground by police after the London bombings of 7th July 2005. There was a four-year battle for justice which closed on 21st Nov 2009 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Jean_Charles_de_Menezeshttp). This is marked deep in my mind. The UK did not take all that responsibility just for people’s lives. It matters not that a man dies, but how to protect people’s lives and human rights. As the new Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government makes human rights a priority at Home and abroad, P. M. Cameron said: “I look forward to our dialogue between Britain and China” at the G8 summit on June 25 2010 in Hunstivlle, Ontario. It claims UK coalition government is working for closer ties with China while standing firm on human rights issues (http://hello.news352.lu/edito-52021-britain-china-agree-need-for-deficit-cuts.html?p=movies). That is to say, I strong believe PM Camera stands firm on human rights issues as my case even so you have relationship with him. I strongly believe that anyone who conspires to kill me and succeeds in doing so should be punished by the UK legal system and Human Rights Act (1998).
Madam FU Ying: from your natural conscience, do you really support that Mr. CHEN Haichao (owner of Xinmi Jinchang Coal mine), CHEN Zhongjian and ZHAO Tiechui and such other senior corrupt communist officials made subsidence of main workshop and residential area of the MFP without any compensation and took over the MFP and arrested victims (General Manager LI Zhanjun, Vice Chairman: Kehui XU and my sister is on the run)?
There are more than a thousand people involved in this. They are in grave danger. Are you really not going to care about this loss of life?
Are you really not going to care about seven miners dead every day in China by coal mine accidents in 2010?
Are you really not ashamed about the grave accidents in Henan, which account for 8.5% of the total in China in 2010?
Are you really not ashamed about the grave accidents in Zhengzhou, which account for 6.4% of the total in China?
Are you really not ashamed about the grave accidents in Xinmi city, which account for 4.3% in the total in China according the State Council announced on 8th Sep 2010? (http://www.china-daily.org/China-News/The-State-Council-announcement-to-the-47-serious-accidents/).
Are you really not ashamed about the Chinese miners are 350 times more likely to die at their workplace than their American or Britain counterparts?
Are you really not ashamed about the death of over 33,800 people in workplace accidents in 6 months of 2010? (http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/world-news/over-33800-chinese-died-in-workplace-accidents-in-six-months_100400860.html)
Since I complained about those corrupt communist senior officials from 2006, there are more than thousands miners dead in my home town as Henan province (killed miners in China: 2010: 1261 miners (first half of 2010); 2009: 2632 miners; 2008: 3200 miners; 2007: 3786 miners; 2006: 4746 miners). Since those corrupt communist senior officials took over the MFP on 5 May 2009, there are more than 200 miners dead in Henan province. Many believe that some deaths go unreported and the true death toll could be much higher. It could be over 10,000 a year. And this does not count the miners who die from block lung and other respiratory ailments (http://factsanddetails.com/china.php?itemid=321&catid=13&subcatid=85)
Mr. MA Jiansong took over the MFP then let one person who acted out the role of the investor. He illegally bought shares of the MFP at 3 times their value. There are only my shares and my family’s shares there. According to and , this is illegal for that investor to sell shares of the MFP to Mr. CHEN Zhongjian for 11 million pounds. How does this investor get money? Actually, the investor is on behalf of coal mine; this coal mine plays two roles. It maneuvered its way to covering their corruptions. Coal mining caused subsidence in the MFP building and they robberies the property of the MFP then arrested its owners. Where is justice in China? (http://chinaelectionsblog.net/?p=5413) As a result, Professor SUN Liping concluded that the biggest threat to China is not social turmoil but social decay.
I knew you who may not share dirty money with coal mines and ZHAO Tiechui. Your support was exchanged for promotion of vice minister. This is what I announced on my Facebook and twitter accounts. I do not know how successful those corrupt senior communist officials’ power is in China but they have connections with both gangsters and police.
You are dealing with western people every day. Their human rights ideology could awaken you more so than ZHAO Tiechui. Should you co-operate with the corrupt officials if it is more painful for you? Should you suffer an agony with your natural conscience every day? I do not intend to suggest that your soul would be condemned to burn in hell for eternity. I forgive you because you know the importance of human rights. As people we face hazards in our lives and we have to live by our conscience- it is our guide. Please tear yourself free of those corrupt officials. Please expose their conspiracy and find out why they used so many public resources to in trying to deport and kill me with the diplomatic risks. Please come back and stand for justice to recover your good image in the Western Country.
Evidence against those corrupt senior communist officials is available upon request.
Thanks you for your time. I and all victims look forward to further discussions with you on the MFP human rights case.
Yrs sincerely
Keji XU
25 Sep 2010
Cc: President of China HU Jintao
Premier of China WEN Jiabao
Minster of Ministry of Foreign Affairs of China: YANG Jiechi
H.E ambassador LIU Xiaoming [Embassy of the China in the UK and Nothern Ireland (London)]
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