Yang Haiming didn’t stop working when he retired from the coal mines at age 60. Instead, he jumped into a new industry.
Yang is part of a generation of workers that powered China's growth by digging coal from underground mines in Datong, a city known as China's coal capital in the northern province of Shanxi. Now, as China prioritizes renewable energy over coal, Yang is ahead of the change his fellow workers are being forced to confront.
