Heilongjiang Longmay Mining Holding Group Co., Ltd. () is a

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in China.

Company

The company founded in 1917 is the largest coal miner in northeast China, an employer in

Heilongjiang Heilongjiang () formerly romanized as Heilungkiang, is a province in northeast China. The standard one-character abbreviation for the province is (). It was formerly romanized as "Heilungkiang". It is the northernmost and easternmost province ...

with 248,000 employees as of March 2014. Address: No. 235 Mingjiang Road Nangang District Harbin, 150090, China

Mining Incident

It was involved in a

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that occurred on November 21, 2009 near

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province, northeastern China. This accident was referred to as the

2009 Heilongjiang mine explosion The 2009 Heilongjiang mine explosion () was a mining accident that occurred on November 21 2009, near Hegang in the Heilongjiang province, northeastern China, which killed 108 people. A further of 29 people were hospitalised. The explosion occurr ...

Restructuring and worker protests

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ordered economic reforms in 2016 with plans to cut employment in the coal mining industry. Longmay was the subject of the protests and marches relating to delayed payments of workers, some of which who claimed in March 2016 they haven't been paid since October 2015. Longmay has announced it plans to lay off up to 100,000 workers. Initially the Governor of Heilongjiang province Lu Hao said at a press conference at the 2016

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: "Longmay has 80,000 workers down mines, and today, not one has not been paid monthly wages and their income hasn't fallen a penny." A week later Mr. Lu later reversed this statement admitting he knowingly misstated the facts. "I had known that the aboveground workers had wages in arrears, but it's also true that the down shafts are also in arrears, and I spoke wrongly about that."

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