China drafting revisions to mining safety after fatal accidents – official

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China’s mine safety administration is drafting revisions to mining safety law, an official said on Monday, after two coal mine accidents killed more than 60 people this year.

The law, implemented in 1993 and revised in 2009, has some “prominent problems”, Xue Jianguang, a director at the State Administration of Mine Safety, said at a press briefing, without disclosing further details. 

China’s coal mines are among the most dangerous in the world. A gas explosion in northwestern Shaanxi province in August caused 11 deaths and an open-pit mine collapse in northern China’s Inner Mongolia region in February resulted in 53 fatalities.