Chinese Premier stresses maintaining stable economic development

• Source: Xinhua
• [15:13 July 06 2009]
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Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao (C), who is also a member of the standing committee of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, praises deaf-mute workers with hand language at the Foxconn scientific and technical zone in Taiyuan, capital of north China's Shanxi Province July 4, 2009. Wen was on an inspection tour to the province from July 4 to 5. (Xinhua/Yao Dawei)

Jiao Jianzhong, 65, said he left his shanty three years ago and moved into the community built to relocate miners living at subsiding areas above coal mines.

Wen said he was happy to see that Jiao's living conditions had improved.

Wen said coal miners should not be forgotten as they contributed a lot to the country's coal sector and industrialization. He promised more measures to improve miners' life and complete social security to ensure better life for the public.

 He visited Tashan mine, with 15 million tonnes of annual production capacity and about 800 miners, under Datong Coal Mine Group.

Wen descended about 460 meters through a 7-kilometer tunnel into a pit to meet miners working underground. Wen inspected their working processes and had dinner with them at noon.

He also asked the miners to pay much attention to safety during his two-hour stay in the pit.