Premier Li Keqiang ordered an investigation into Sunday’s landslide in the city, just across the border from Hong Kong.
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The Beijing Youth Daily, citing a local resident, reported that the soil that slid down onto the area had been piled up against a 100-meter (110-yard) -high hill after being dug up in the past two years in construction work.
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Rescuers search for potential survivors near collapsed buildings following a landslide in Shenzhen, in south China’s Guangdong province, Monday, Dec. 21, 2015. The agency, on its official microblog, said the finding was preliminary.
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Emergency service members search rubble for survivors after a landslide buried 33 buildings in Shenzhen, China. “Now that Shenzhen has this problem, you can’t rule out a lot of other places having such risks”, Mr Fan said. It has developed into one of China’s leading economies over the last thirty years, becoming China’s first and most successful Special Economic Zones, which were developed back in 1980 to establish themselves (China) as a global economic player.
State television showed scenes of devastation, with crumpled buildings sticking up from heaps of brown mud which stretched out across the edge of the industrial park.
Hundreds of workers continue to search the site on Monday.
The landslide happened next to a quarry-turned dumping site for construction waste.
Locals told the media that they had long seen the pile of construction waste as a danger.
Such dump sites were often forced through despite opposition by residents, media reports said. Experts say the landslide was not a natural disaster, but rather a human-made catastrophe triggered by the excessive piling of industrial waste.
The mound of construction waste that collapsed had become too large and its angles too steep, the ministry of land and resources said Sunday evening on its Sina Weibo account (link in Chinese, registration required).
The command center said 15 enterprises were affected in three industrial parks hit by the landslide, which CCTV said covered an area of about 380,000 square meters. A nearby section of the West-to-East natural gas pipeline exploded as the landslide hit the area.
At one point the running mud was only ten metres away from me.
“We heard a sound like an explosion and then all we saw was smoke”, said the man, who gave only his surname, Dong.
“When we excavate with large machinery, we have to consider the risks both to the people who are buried and the rescue workers”, said Yang Shengjun, head of the Shenzhen housing and development bureau.
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The State Council, China’s cabinet, has sent a working group to Shenzhen to help coordinate rescue efforts.
