In designing personal pension schemes, the government must seek to make innovative arrangements to expand the overall coverage of pension benefits
Miners chat as they wait to descend into Wangpingcun Coal Mine, Mentougou District, Beijing, 1990
Miners working for Shandong Yankuang Group take a break inside a coal mine in Yanhzou, Shandong Province, in the 1980s. Their faces are smeared with soot, which takes time to wash off
Miners take a short break in the sun near the mine entrance as they wait to change shifts, Shanxi Lu’an Mining Group, Changzhi, Shanxi Province, 1992
Shigejie Coalmine in Shanxi Province was a model mine in the 1980s. Pictured is an artist drawing a poster of the miners
Miners drink in a bar after work, Shandong Yankuang Group, Yanzhou, Shandong Province, 2013
After work, young miners exercise in the gym at Xinglongzhuang Coal Mine, Shandong Yankuang Group, Yanzhou, Shandong Province, March 20, 2013
To keep the mines tidy above and below the surface, Shandong Energy Group requires its workers to clean their shoes whenever they enter and exit the mines at Liangbaosi Coal Mine in Jiaxiang County in Shandong Province, October 2013
Many miners with Shandong Longkou Mining Group have developed rheumatism, an occupational disease associated with long periods underground, Longkou, Shandong Province, 2005
Former Hong Kong police officer Lee Ka Chiu John was elected as Hong Kong’s sixth Chief Executive on May 8.
China’s truckers are struggling to survive as the freight industry faces shrinking profits, exploitative algorithms and Covid restrictions
A building collapse killed 53 people in Changsha, Hunan Province on April 29, causing great public concern about illegally built or extended buildings.
With the rise of abusive anti-counterfeit practices among China’s fake-goods hunters, some of the country’s well-known consumer crusaders wonder if there is still a future for them