The Chinese coal mining industry is dirty and deadly, both for workers and the environment. But without new sources of energy, how can the nation's economy grow? View photographer Christian Als' gallery of the coal-fueled life in poverty-stricken Shanxi Province.
Christian Als is a Danish photojournalist whose work has appeared in Time, The New Yorker, Der Spiegel, The Wall Street Journal, and many other publications around the world. You can see more of his work at his Web site.
