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Officials criticized for frequent coal mine accidents

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Chinanews, Nov. 15 - At 7:40 Sunday evening, a coal mine accident occurred in Nanshan Coal Mine in Lingshi County, Shanxi Province. So far, 25 bodies have been found and nine miners are missing. Rescue work is still going on.

This is the second coal mine accident in the county in the past four months. Previously¹, an explosion occurred in Xiamen Coal Mine, in which 53 people lost their lives.

On November 13, an investigative team led by Zhao Tiechui, head of National Bureau of Coal Mine Safety Supervision² Administration, heard a report by local officials about the accident at the rescue site.

This wasn’t the first time for Zhao to “visit” the county. Back in last July, when the serious coal mine explosion occurred in Xiamen Coal Mine, the official rushed to the site for rescue work. To think that three months later, another serious accident should have occurred in the same place! The working conditions in the county couldn't help but arouse the concern of the senior official.

When informed that the safety work license³ and coal mine safety work license had expired for almost a year in Nanshan Coal Mine, he found it hard to keep his temper.

“Since all these licenses⁴ had run out for nearly one year, why didn’t you stop the production? Why didn’t you run through the check-up procedure?”

When asked how many coal mines were there in the county, and how many of them didn’t meet the work safety standards, the local officials answered the questions evasively.

When asked how many coal mines should be closed, a local official replied that he couldn’t’ remember the exact figure.

At this moment, Zhao couldn’t keep his temper any more.

“Have you seen the notification issued by the State Council on closing of coal mines for rectification⁵? Why didn’t you enforce the policy? As the local officials in Lingshi County, you are supposed to protect your people. However, you couldn’t answer any of the questions I asked. What on earth do you know, then? Is this the way you govern your region?!”, the official shouted angrily.

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1 previously
adv.以前，先前（地）
参考例句：
The bicycle tyre blew out at a previously damaged point.自行车胎在以前损坏过的地方又爆开了。 Let me digress for a moment and explain what had happened previously.让我岔开一会儿，解释原先发生了什么。

2 supervision
n.监督，管理
参考例句：
The work was done under my supervision.这项工作是在我的监督之下完成的。 The old man's will was executed under the personal supervision of the lawyer.老人的遗嘱是在律师的亲自监督下执行的。

3 license
n.执照，许可证，特许；v.许可，特许
参考例句：
The foreign guest has a license on the person.这个外国客人随身携带执照。 The driver was arrested for having false license plates on his car.司机由于使用假车牌而被捕。

4 licenses
n.执照( license的名词复数 )v.批准，许可，颁发执照( license的第三人称单数 )
参考例句：
Drivers have ten days' grace to renew their licenses. 驾驶员更换执照有10天的宽限期。来自《现代汉英综合大词典》 Jewish firms couldn't get import or export licenses or raw materials. 犹太人的企业得不到进出口许可证或原料。来自辞典例句

5 rectification
n. 改正, 改订, 矫正
参考例句：
The process of producing a shift of the average value is called rectification. 产生平均值移动的过程叫做整流。 This effect, in analogy to its radiofrequency counterpart, is known as optical rectification. 同它的射频对应物相仿，这种现象称为光学整流。

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