Today I'd like to share something of my hometown, espically the coal industry.
I was born in a small village in Shanxi Provined(People always confused Shanxi山西 with Shanxi陕西), when i was very little(10 years old),there were very few factory in my hometown, or only one coal factory in a large scope. People at that time were almost all farmers working in field, and it's really very lively in my village after school, when all the people went back from field and chatted outside, children played around their parents and home. We were all poor, but happy. And at that time, the price of mine is so low that few people prefered to work in coal mine factory.
When i was around 12 years old, it was found that our hometown is rich in Sulphur mine resource, in very short time, so many Sulphur factory were built and start production, everybody know that durling the production of Sulphur, there would come out gas (Sulphur Dioxide),this gas is very pungent and poisonous. I remember in the morning of every day in thest 3-4 years, there was a circle of fog made of Sulphur Dioxide around my village. So terrible! Later I heard that a big guy from Beijing came to our hometown and ordered to destroyed all these Sulphur factory. From then on, there's never clear water in our small river, and now no even water in this small river because of coal mine!
The coal price increased from 2002,and boomed at 2007,everybody took a risk to dig the coal from everywhere, and so many hold left on every mountain, the coal is named black gold because of it's high price and easy getting. Although local goverment received order from Beijing to control these situation, because of it's low safety for the miners, there were always niners lost lives, and sometimes, hundres of niners were killed one time, i think because of the bad influence and press from overseas, the goverment adopt severe punishment to the offenders. Now we have to came back to field, but lose our beautifule environment forever.
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