Fushun’s coal production gradually fell to 5.29 million tonnes last year, a fraction of what was produced in the heyday of the 1960s and 1970s. Photo: WeChat
China’s rust belt cities shrouded in uncertainty as exhausted natural resources shake China’s foundations
- With economically extractable coal exhausted and a lack of technology and capital to safely mine deeper underground, mines are shutting down one by one
- Bureaucratic, state-run mentality that goes back to Japanese dominance early last century hindering efforts to revitalise China’s earliest industrial success
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Fushun’s coal production gradually fell to 5.29 million tonnes last year, a fraction of what was produced in the heyday of the 1960s and 1970s. Photo: WeChat