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Article: Overseas specialists help improve Chinese coal mine

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December 10, 2007
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Overseas specialists help improve Chinese coal mineby Xinhua writer Zhu Yifan

BEIJING, Dec. 10 (Xinhua) -- The neat and tidy control room at a northwestern China coal mine was a surprise to De Wet Mulder, who on his last visit to a Chinese pit 10 years ago was so frightened by the appalling safety measures he saw that he wanted to bolt for safety immediately.

Mulder is one of the nine specialists from Australia and South Africa who have returned from a coal mine tour to China's Gansu Province, and exchanged expertise in coal mine safety and rescue management with their Chinese counterparts, as China tries to improve the lot of its miners by accessing experience from other countries.

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