Rescuers are working to reach 18 people trapped underground after a cave-in at a gold mine in Yining county, Northwest China s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. Local authorities said on Sunday that the complex conditions in the mine have complicated the rescue work.
Like so many of Mao’s pronouncements, it sounded simple. “The South has a lot of water; the North lacks water. So if it can be done, borrowing a little water and bringing it up might do the trick.” And thus, in 1952, the foundation was laid for what four decades later would become China’s most ambitious engineering project a scheme to haul some 45 billion cubic meters of