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Coal Mining Subsidence Area

2019-05-08 | UPSC

Coal Mining Subsidence Area (采煤塌陷区 ci méi t xiàn q): Coal mining subsidence area refers to the areas sunk after coal mining. In many resource-based cities, there is a wide range of coal mining subsidence areas left-over from the past with serious geological and environmental destructions, as well as ecological and social risks, which is regarded as a universal difficult problem.

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