English citations of Loufan

  • 2008 July 31, Shipeng Guo, “China mine disasters kill 20, landslide buries 10”, in Nick Macfie, editor, Reuters[1], archived from the original on 12 May 2022, Latest Crisis‎[2]:
    At least 10 villagers in Loufan county in the northern province of Shanxi were buried by a landslide on Friday morning, Xinhua said.
  • 2008 October 9, “Gag order over fatal dam burst”, in South China Morning Post[3], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on March 10, 2024[4]:
    Reporter Sun Chunlong had a scoop in the Xinhua-owned Oriental Outlook weekly magazine about the bursting of a mine-tailings dam on August 1 that submerged a hamlet in Loufan county, Shanxi , claiming more than 40 lives.
    Loufan authorities reported the event as a natural accident with a minor death toll.
  • 2010, John Naisbitt, Doris Naisbitt, China's Megatrends[5], HarperCollins, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 108:
    On his blog, the thirty-two-year-old Sun posted an informant’s letter addressed to Wang Jun, who had recently been appointed acting governor of Shanxi province. The letter asked Wang to make a thorough investigation into a fatal landslide that had happened in this region the previous month; apparently, the landslide had been caused by the collapse of an illegal mining dump in Loufan county, and it had reportedly killed eleven people.
  • 2011, Xin Xin, “Web 2.0, citizen journalism and social justice in China”, in Graham Meikle, Guy Redden, editors, News Online: Transformations and Continuities[6], Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 184:
    The case of the Loufan landslide indicates how a mainstream journalist-blogger used his weblog to expose the cover-up of an accident in north-west China. Work-related accidents due to poor safety measures are another important aspect of social injustice in today’s China. The landslide took place at a local iron mine in Loufan county in the suburbs of the Shanxi provincial capital Taiyuan on 1 August 2008. Initially, the local authorities attempted to cover up the causes of the disaster by blaming the ‘bad weather’, and deliberately concealed the real number of casualties.