Wuhai, a tiny city of just over half a million people in Inner Mongolia, is coal country.
Growing up there, Dr Yang Yingxia remembers the hills dotted with coal mines, and how her friends would set off for the country seeking to make their fortunes from the black gold beneath the ground.
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