Qitaihe (Chinese: 七台河; pinyin: Qītáihé) is a prefecture-level city in Heilongjiang province of the People's Republic of China. The estimated population in 2002 was 361,700. Pinyin (拼音, pīnyīn) literally means join (together) sounds (a less literal translation being phoneticize, spell or transcription) in Chinese and usually refers to Hànyǔ Pīnyīn (汉语拼音, literal meaning: Han language pinyin), which is a system of romanization (phonetic notation and transliteration to roman script) for Standard Mandarin used in the...
Coal mining is an important industry. Other major cities with coal mining within the province include Hegang. Hegang (鹤岗, Haoli) is a city of more than 100 000 inhabitants in Heilongjiang province of the Peoples Republic of China. ...
Qitaihe began its development when mining started in 1958.
Outside the Qitaihe mine late yesterday, a stream of emergency vehicles with flashing red lights and fl government sedans made its way up and down the narrow, two-lane road to the mine entrance.
The government said the explosion in Qitaihe was blamed on airborne coal dust that ignited.
Zhang rushed to Qitaihe from Harbin, about 350 kilometres (250 miles) to the west, where he had just taken part in festivities marking the restoration of running water that was suspended after a spill of toxic benzene in the nearby Songhua River.
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