Heilongjiang Longmay Mining Holding Group Co., Ltd.

Longmay Group
State Owned Enterprise
Industry Coal mining
Founded 1917
Headquarters Harbin, Heilongjiang, China
Number of employees
 248,000 (as of 2014)
Parent Chinese Government
Website www.longmay.com.cn

Heilongjiang Longmay Mining Holding Group Co., Ltd. (Chinese: 黑龙江龙煤矿业控股集团有限责任公司; pinyin: Hēilóngjiāng lóngméi kuàngyè kònggǔ jítuán yǒuxiàn zérèn gōngsī) is a state owned enterprise in China.

Company

The company founded in 1917 is the largest coal miner in northeast China, an employer in Heilongjiang with 248,000 employees as of March 2014.[1] Address: No. 235 Mingjiang Road Nangang District Harbin, 150090, China [2]

Mining Incident

It was involved in a mining accident that occurred on November 21, 2009 near Hegang in Heilongjiang province, northeastern China. This accident was referred to as the 2009 Heilongjiang mine explosion.

Restructuring and worker protests

Xi Jinping ordered economic reforms in 2016 with plans to cut employment in the coal mining industry. Longmay was the subject of the protests and marches relating to delayed payments of workers, some of which who claimed in March 2016 they haven't been paid since October 2015.[3] Longmay has announced it plans to lay off up to 100,000 workers.[4]

Initially the Governor of Heilongjiang province Lu Hao said at a press conference at the 2016 National People's Congress: "Longmay has 80,000 workers down mines, and today, note one has not been paid monthly wages and their income hasn't fallen a penny."[5] A week later Mr. Lu later reversed this statement admitting he knowingly misstated the facts. "I had known that the aboveground workers had wages in arrears, but it's also true that the down shafts are also in arrears, and I spoke wrongly about that."[6][7]

References

  1. ↑ "NE China coal groups suffer losses in Q1, Longmay the worst hit". China Coal Resource. 15 March 2014. Retrieved 18 March 2016.
  2. ↑ "Heilongjiang Longmay". Bloomberg news. 13 March 2016. Retrieved 18 March 2016.
  3. ↑ "Anger in China's coal country as miners feel left behind". Seattle Times. 18 March 2016. Retrieved 18 March 2016.
  4. ↑ "Miners' protest: ailing Chinese coal firm Heilongjiang Longmay told to pay workers". South China Morning Post. 13 March 2016. Retrieved 18 March 2016.
  5. ↑ "Official Admits He Gave Misleading Account of Chinese Miners' Plight". New York Times. 14 March 2016. Retrieved 22 March 2016.
  6. ↑ "Official Admits He Gave Misleading Account of Chinese Miners' Plight". New York Times. 14 March 2016. Retrieved 22 March 2016.
  7. ↑ "Heilongjiang Province Official Website Press Release". Heilongjiang Government Website. 12 March 2016. Retrieved 22 March 2016.
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