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[Podcast] The coal that powered China to prosperity


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In October of 1901, General Zeng Qi asked the emperor of China for permission to open a coal mine. So began a century-long rat race to power China’s industrialization.
Click here to read the article by James Carter.
Narrated by John Darwin Van Fleet.
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