China View: China closed 10,412 coal mines in the last three years amid efforts to improve workplace safety and to check extravagant use of natural resources, the country’s top industrial safety inspector said. Li Yizhong, head of the State Administration of Work Safety, said another 1,100 coal mines must be shut soon as the government had ordered the closure of 11,618 coal mines by the end of last November. He made the remarks at a recent meeting on coal mine development in Beijing. …