Word: shaanxi
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...published 160 years ago, but it's an accurate commentary on the plight of millions of Chinese like Chen Suo, a 16-year-old assembly-line worker at shoe manufacturer Stella International located in the southern city of Dongguan in Guangdong province. Chen returned to her home in Shaanxi province in disgrace earlier this month after spending eight months in jail for participating in a labor protest that turned violent. "I wasn't thinking of breaking things or blowing things up," says Chen of the April rampage, during which about a thousand workers sabotaged machinery, trashed company offices and overturned...
...that kills three or more people every week, while there is an accident that kills at least 10 people every three weeks, according to State Administration of Work Safety statistics. The latest large-scale tragedy occurred on Nov. 28 when an explosion at the government-owned Chenjiashan mine in Shaanxi province killed 166 people, the deadliest accident in years. Fire had broken out in the mine a week before the accident, but bosses threatened to suspend workers who refused to return to work, state-run media reported...
...heavily affected provinces like Henan, Hebei and Shaanxi, an entire generation is vanishing in the shadow of AIDS. In family after family, mothers and fathers are dying, leaving as many as 200,000 children in Henan alone either parentless or in the care of aging grandparents. Ho and his colleagues were the first foreign group officially allowed to visit one of its villages, Wenlou. At the local hospital, only two doctors care for more than 1,000 HIV-positive patients, and they were trained not by the Chinese health system but by one of Ho's colleagues based in China...
...heavily affected provinces like Henan, Hebei and Shaanxi, an entire generation is vanishing in the shadow of AIDS. In family after family, mothers and fathers are dying, leaving as many as 200,000 children in Henan alone either parentless or in the care of aging grandparents. Ho and his colleagues were the first foreign group officially allowed to visit one of its villages, Wenlou. At the local hospital, only two doctors care for more than 1,000 HIV-positive patients, and they were trained not by the Chinese health system but by one of Ho's colleagues based in China...
Sources: Xi'an Municipal Public Securities Bureau; Shaanxi Archaeology Research Institute; China's Buried Kingdoms (TIME-LIFE Books...