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HEGANG (CHINA): Mr Gao Shujun is one of the seven million Chinese coal miners who brave long hours in dangerous conditions every day, but it is the price he pays for economic survival.
Lying on a hospital bed yesterday, he reflected on the deadly nature of his job after surviving a mine blast last Saturday that killed at least 104 miners and left four still unaccounted for in the city of Hegang in north-eastern Heilongjiang province.
'The work is dangerous...but the salary is higher than for other jobs. I don't like it, but I have no education, I didn't study well, so this is the inevitable result,' he said.
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