标题: 中国煤矿工业衰落，大幅裁员加剧社会动荡隐忧 [打印本页] 作者: choi 时间: 12-17-2015 10:15 标题: 中国煤矿工业衰落，大幅裁员加剧社会动荡隐忧 Jane Perlez and Yufan Huang, 中国煤矿工业衰落，大幅裁员加剧社会动荡隐忧. 纽约时报中文网, Dec 17, 2015 cn.nytimes.com/china/20151217/c17hegang/
, which is translated from the first half of
Jane Perlez and Yufan Huang, A Chinese Coal Town on Edge; With mass layoffs looming, country may face labor unrest. New York Times, Dec 17, 2015
(in China: "The coal industry is hurting nationwide, as coal prices have fallen nearly 60 percent since 2011")
Note:
(a) "Hegang, China 黑龙江省鹤岗市 * * * Longmay Group 龙煤集团, the biggest coal company in northeastern China * * * the government of Heilongjiang Province, which owns Longmay"
(b) The following are quotations from the second half of the print version. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/1 ... mining-economy.html
Quote:
(i) "The signs of severe economic trouble are evident. For-sale signs hang on the facades of restaurants that draw few customers. Robberies are on the rise; manhole covers and cellphones are popular targets. Women say they have stopped wearing jewelry for fear of being assaulted.
"Heilongjiang has been one of the most depressed provinces in China for years. Its economic output fell 2.2 percent in the first three quarters of this year compared with the same period last year, without adjusting for inflation, according to the National Bureau of Statistics.
(ii) "Still, the state-owned mines have been reluctant to cut production because there is little other work here. * * * Mr Hui [none of the interviewees in this report had the given name listed], 55, was one of the first [to be let go]. 'It was 7 o’clock in the morning,' he recalled. 'Our captain came to our changing room after meeting with the leaders. He said, "Here is bad news for you guys." Then he said, "Hui, you are one of those who are above the age limit." ' Mr Hui said he was crushed. He had worked as a firefighter at the mine for 35 years and expected a pension. He had not been told how much severance pay he would received, he said.
(iii) "As the region’s population has dwindled in the last decade, the younger people who have stayed say they feel trapped. They have few skills to offer to factories in southern China, which in any case no longer hire the way they used to. And they are boxed in, expected to work in the mines, they say, by family traditions.
* There is no need to read the rest of the second half.
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Yifu Dong, '煤都' 抚顺：因煤而兴，因煤而困. 纽约时报中文网, Oct 8, 2015
cn.nytimes.com/china/20151008/c08fushun/
, which is translated from
Yifu Dong, A Chinese Town Built on Coal Now Risks Being Buried by It. New York Times, Oct 7, 2015.
Quote:
"The city of Fushun, one of many so-called coal capitals of China, is struggling. Two-thirds of its estimated 1.5 billion tons of coal has been mined, and today the mineral that helped turn the city into a booming metropolis of 2.2 million threatens to bury it. * * * Decades of destructive mining techniques are causing frequent landslides that threaten to sink the city [landslides; building near the mine slanted and the city’s underground water pipes are cracking]. Today, Fushun produces less than three million tons of coal a year, a drop from a peak of 18.3 million tons in 1962.
CUI Yuan, 44, the head of the Fushun Geological and Environmental Monitoring Station 抚顺地质环境监测站站长 崔原, said: " 'We have another 60-meter layer right beneath our feet, but there’s no way we can dig further.' Digging deeper would cause more landslides and more damage that the city is ill equipped to handle.
"Landslides now threaten 42.5 percent of Fushun’s urban areas, according to a 2012 government report.
"Although Fushun’s coal was discovered centuries ago, it was not exploited on a mass scale until 1901, during the Qing dynasty. Fushun was near the hometown of the early Qing emperors, and upsetting the land of royal ancestors was considered taboo. Japan joined the coal rush in 1903, first by renting land and then, in 1931, by seizing it. * * * 'it was the Japanese who laid the industrial foundation for Fushun, and Fushun became a city built around coal mines,' Mr Zhang [Jun, 52, former head of the project department at Fushun’s Development and Reform Commission, the local agency that oversees economic development 前抚顺发改委重点项目办公室主任 张君] said. Later, under Communist rule, Fushun became a pillar of the Chinese economy, a leading center for not only coal but also the production of aluminum, steel and excavation machinery.
Note:
(a) "Fushun’s West Open Mine 西露天矿, the largest open coal mine in Asia"
(b) The Chinese from (a) and quotations are copied from cn.nytimes.com.作者: choi 时间: 12-17-2015 10:15
Yifu Dong, '煤都' 抚顺：因煤而兴，因煤而困. 纽约时报中文网, Oct 8, 2015 cn.nytimes.com/china/20151008/c08fushun/
, which is translated from
Yifu Dong, A Chinese Town Built on Coal Now Risks Being Buried by It. New York Times, Oct 7, 2015.
Quote:
"The city of Fushun, one of many so-called coal capitals of China, is struggling. Two-thirds of its estimated 1.5 billion tons of coal has been mined, and today the mineral that helped turn the city into a booming metropolis of 2.2 million threatens to bury it. * * * Decades of destructive mining techniques are causing frequent landslides that threaten to sink the city [landslides; building near the mine slanted and the city’s underground water pipes are cracking]. Today, Fushun produces less than three million tons of coal a year, a drop from a peak of 18.3 million tons in 1962.
CUI Yuan, 44, the head of the Fushun Geological and Environmental Monitoring Station 抚顺地质环境监测站站长 崔原, said: " 'We have another 60-meter layer right beneath our feet, but there’s no way we can dig further.' Digging deeper would cause more landslides and more damage that the city is ill equipped to handle.
"Landslides now threaten 42.5 percent of Fushun’s urban areas, according to a 2012 government report.
"Although Fushun’s coal was discovered centuries ago, it was not exploited on a mass scale until 1901, during the Qing dynasty. Fushun was near the hometown of the early Qing emperors, and upsetting the land of royal ancestors was considered taboo. Japan joined the coal rush in 1903, first by renting land and then, in 1931, by seizing it. * * * 'it was the Japanese who laid the industrial foundation for Fushun, and Fushun became a city built around coal mines,' Mr Zhang [Jun, 52, former head of the project department at Fushun’s Development and Reform Commission, the local agency that oversees economic development 前抚顺发改委重点项目办公室主任 张君] said. Later, under Communist rule, Fushun became a pillar of the Chinese economy, a leading center for not only coal but also the production of aluminum, steel and excavation machinery.
Note:
(a) "Fushun’s West Open Mine 西露天矿, the largest open coal mine in Asia"
(b) The Chinese from (a) and quotations are copied from cn.nytimes.com.