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Coal mine workers' income sets record
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2005-02-14 11:40
The annual per capita income of workers in state-owned coal mines in Shanxi
Province rose to 20, 500 yuan (2,480 US dollars) last year, up 25 percent from
the previous year.
Premier Wen Jiabao comforts a weeping boy
who lost his father to a coal mine disaster in Tongchuan, Northwest
China's Shaanxi Province. [baidu] |
This is
the first time the workers earned more than 20,000 yuan in a year, and the
income increase was attributed to growth in coal production and sales.
The province produced 493 million tons of coal last year, accounting of one
fourth of the country's total. Several years ago, low prices of coal and coke
resulted in lower economic efficiency in the coal industry. Thanks to the
improvement of its economic performance, social security and operation
mechanisms have changed the stagnant situation.
By the end of last year, more than 410,000 workers from the key stated-owned
coal mines had received industrial injury insurance.
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