More grim shenanigans in China's mines related here; warning, spoilers for the excellent film Blind Shaft in the second paragraph. (Hat tip: Rob Hunwick).
Attitudes to the mentally handicapped are depressingly bad in China, where the normal practice is to shut them away within the house. There's numerous scandals involving their sale and abuse. The treatment of mental illness isn't that better. I know of a couple of people who suffered nervous breakdowns at university and were basically never given any chance to recover by their parents, who more or less locked them at home and heaped shame on them.
As for the mines, the system has got better, for what it's worth, since 2003. The workers at State-owned mines I met were all contemptous of the private mines, and many of them claimed that the safety record was better in the late 70s than today, which is plausible.
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