Analysis

Lack of Corporate Social Responsibility Behind Recent China Accidents

by Zijun Li on December 12, 2005
In the past month alone, China has suffered from two very serious human-caused disasters. Less then two weeks after a November 13 chemical plant explosion in Jilin province released a flood of toxins into the Songhua River, a blast at Dongfeng coal mine in the northeastern province of Heilongjiang killed 171 miners.