Jixi

The accident occurred Wednesday afternoon in Jixi city in Heilongjiang province at the Kunyuan mine and was reported by Chinese media on Thursday.

Heavy rains were forecast for western Jixi and southern Mudanjiang, while the northern part of Heihe, northern Suihua, southern Harbin, Qitaihe, and eastern Jixi could see moderate rains.

In the city of Jixi in China’s northernmost province of Heilongjiang, 18 officials, including township leaders, law enforcement chiefs as well as directors of a hospital and a funeral home, were disciplined or reprimanded recently for neglecting their duties and responsibilities in pandemic control.

Another two cities in Heilongjiang, Jixi and Mudanjiang, pledged to enter into a “pre-war” mode of high vigilance and stringent monitoring, though no local infections have been reported yet in the past week.

Gao Jixi, an environment ministry official and one of the architects of China’s “red line” scheme, said he believed Beijing was still capable of raising protected areas to more than 30% of national territory.