Recently the Ministry of Public Health issued the national condition on the occurrence of occupational disease in 2001. Last year 13,218 cases on all sorts of such disease were reported and that increased 13% more than in 2000. That shows China meets grim situation in the prevention and control of such disease...

Of the reported cases, the heavier pneumoconiosis has reached to 10,505 cases, increasing 15% more than in 2000. Now China has 430,000 people to suffer from this typical occupational disease...