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Smoke rises from a chimney of a steel plant next to residential buildings on a hazy day in Fengnan district of Tangshan, Hebei province February 18, 2014. There are dozens of "zombie" mills that can no longer afford to operate in and around Tangshan, an industrial city of 7 million people in China's northern Hebei province. China has told Hebei to slash steel capacity, stirred by growing public resentment about pollution. However, many mills are already on the brink of bankruptcy and would have been forced to close anyway. At the Qingquan mill, on the outskirts of the city, workers went on strike in October after going unpaid for six months and have not returned. Picture taken February 18, 2014. [Photo/Agencies]
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