At midnight on September 20, 2008, a miner was suffocated to death at Huobao Ganhe Coal Mine in Huozhou. The deceased: Ji Xinong, 41 years old, from the second group of Beibai Village, Quting Town, Hongtong County, was buried on the 22nd. On the 25th, a miner from the mine reported that after the incident, the mine management did not actively report the fatal mining accident to the relevant departments, but instead adopted an internal concealment policy, attempting to keep the accident hidden. By the 25th, more than 200 so-called media reporters from all over the country had gathered on the third floor of the Ganhe Coal Mine office building to queue up for...