The End of an Era--The depletion of their natural resources is forcing many industrial cities in northeast China to readjust their economic structure

On the 1960 version of the five-yuan note is a picture of a coalmine. It is Haizhou mine in Fuxin in northeast China＇s Liaoning Province, the biggest open coal mine in Asia in the 1950s, and one of the most important fuel providers of New China, not to mention a symbol of the country＇s revolutionary enthusiasm.