Yang Zhenkai, former head of the mine, gestures as he talks about the glorious past of the plant. In the 1950s, the mine annually manufactured tens of millions of yuan worth of products. He regrets the lacks of environmental awareness, saying at the time that they did not imagine the disastrous consequences. [Photo/icpress.cn] |
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