Causes and Responses : Reflection on China s Coal Mine Disasters 2005-2014

The constant and numerous mine disasters and thousands dead miners shocked China and world repeatedly in 2005. The Chinese Central Government made great efforts to resolve this problem, but produced little effect. The miners of China have made enormous contribution to the economic growth of China, but their lives cannot get basic guarantee from governments. This paper examines five mine disasters occurred in 2005, and attempted to provide the immediate causes of the problem. Moreover, this article checks the relationships among the Central Government with local governments, and Central Government with officials of local government. It also accesses the responses of Chinese government to the mine disasters. At last it draws the conclusion that it is the “government failure” and “market failure” cause the mine disasters, and that’s why Chinese coal mine disasters continue to now.