Meaning of Shuangyashan | Babel Free

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A prefecture-level city of Heilongjiang, China.

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“Shuangyashan is located in north-east China, in a forested province named Heilongjiang after the ‘black dragon river’. The temperature slips below zero for a greater part of the year.”

“Frustration among miners like Li over unpaid wages has swelled to the brink of unrest in Heilongjiang province in China’s far northeast, also known as Manchuria. It spilled over most recently a week ago when thousands of miners protested in the town of Shuangyashan, a direct challenge to Beijing’s assertion that it is proceeding smoothly with a sweeping plan to cut capacity in industrial sectors and make the economy more efficient.”

“The government’s default approach to labor disputes has been to treat them as a threat to law and order. After a widely reported miners’ strike in the northeastern city of Shuangyashan in 2016, for example, the Public Security Bureau arrested 30 people for what it called serious criminal charges.”

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