Chinh's news: Where The Coal Is Stained With Blood

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."