After decades of reckless coal mining and lax enforcement of environmental legislation, 1,000 residents in China in northern China will be moved by years , at a cost of 15.8bn yuan (£ 1.7bn ) as villages begin to sink and houses subside. Thousands of residents in China’s Many villages have already been abandoned, deemed too unsafe, while residents in others shore up walls with tree trunks and attempt to fill the sinkholes caused by the end of 2017 of irresponsible mining processes. China is planning to close 655,000 mines in 2016 alone.
After decades of reckless coal mining and lax enforcement of environmental legislation, 1,000 residents in China in northern China will be moved by years , at a cost of 15.8bn yuan (£ 1.7bn ) as villages begin to sink and houses subside. Many villages have already been abandoned, deemed too unsafe, while residents in others shore up walls with tree trunks and attempt to fill the sinkholes caused by the end of 2017 of irresponsible mining processes. China is planning to close 655,000 mines in 2016 alone.