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There are just two days left for entries to be submitted to the British government’s competition, to make coal-fired power stations more environmentally friendly.

The challenge is to perfect the art of carbon capture, that’s collecting the carbon dioxide produced by burning coal before it can get into the atmosphere.

Coal fuel’s China’s booming economy, but the country’s coal mining industry has the worst safety record in the world.Al Jazeera’s Tony Birtley reports from Sunjiawan, where local people have paid a high price to keep China’s coal power stations burning.