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 She asked that her name not be published for fear of retribution.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.
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