How foreign corporations pay $2,500 an hour to avoid the Chinese blacklist

Chinese media reported last week the government could release the blacklist in retaliation for a US bill supporting the Uighur minority in Xinjiang province

China Railway Construction Corp. deployed thousands of workers over four years to build part of a coal-carrying line from Inner Mongolia to Jiangxi province –- about the same distance as midtown Manhattan to Walt Disney World Resort in Florida.

The project cost about 200 billion yuan ($28 billion) in total and was heralded by state media in 2018 as an exemplar of “safe production” with no injuries or deaths. Except there were, and China Railway’s project managers were covering them up.

Tipsters exposed the conspiracy to local reporters, and a state-run China Railway unit eventually admitted that three workers died in 2017