{"id":775938,"date":"2026-09-19T16:22:36","date_gmt":"2026-09-19T16:22:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/775938\/"},"modified":"2026-09-19T16:22:36","modified_gmt":"2026-09-19T16:22:36","slug":"how-chinas-nickel-boom-left-one-village-sitting-next-to-a-mountain-of-slag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/775938\/","title":{"rendered":"How China&#8217;s nickel boom left one village sitting next to a mountain of slag"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"ArticleTag_articleTag__P1Zo7\" href=\"https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/spotlight\/caixin\" data-trackable=\"primary-tag\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Caixin<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleHeader_newsArticleHeaderSubtitle__ZlvPp\" data-trackable=\"subhead\" data-dark-mode=\"false\">Xinhai Technology has not disclosed information of nickel-slag storage as required by new code<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/https:\/\/cms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/images\/8\/9.jpeg\" alt=\"20260916 Caixin\" width=\"780\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleCaption_newsArticleCaption__fxo8v\" data-trackable=\"caption\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" style=\"display:block\">A mountain of nickel slag looms in Jiaoshan in China&#8217;s eastern Shandong province. (Photo by Bao Zhiming)<\/p>\n<p>BAO ZHIMING, Caixin<\/p>\n<p>September 19, 2026 13:07 JST<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">In the agricultural heartland of China&#8217;s eastern Shandong province, a colossal &#8220;black mountain&#8221; casts a long shadow over the wheat and corn fields of Jiaoshan village.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Caixin Xinhai Technology has not disclosed information of nickel-slag storage as required by new code A mountain of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":775939,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[76634,84,8383,1294,1849,6586,63484,4855,106623,739,15215,255838,56,54,55,8489],"class_list":["post-775938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-boom","tag-business","tag-chinas","tag-economy","tag-how","tag-left","tag-mountain","tag-next","tag-nickel","tag-one","tag-sitting","tag-slag","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-village"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/775938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=775938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/775938\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/775939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=775938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=775938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=775938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}