A woman walks past the gates of a baijiu liquor distillery city, made in imitation of a traditional Chinese city, in Liulin, Shanxi province, China, on Thursday, May 19, 2016. Shanxi is facing a challenge shared by a sweeping region across Chinas industrial north: how to shut down cash-burning mines that employ millions of people whose prospects are uncertain in the new economy promised by President Xi Jinping. New business ventures like the distillery city, funded by coal money with grandiose hopes and expectations, often prove too ambitious and unrealistic.
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