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The working-class history of Heilongjian Province
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  - 50,000 Daqing Oilfield Workers Organise
    Independent Trade Union
- China Labour Bulletin, 11 March 2002. Workers
	  stage mass demonstrations and organize an independent union
	  in a struggle against retrenchment. The local authorities
	  responded by sending para-military police and deploying a
	  PLA tank regiment.
- 2,000 Women Retirees Protest in
    Daqing
- China Labour Bulletin, 28 June 2002. Over
	  2,000 retired women workers of Daqing Petroleum
	  Administration Bureau (DPAB) staged protests in front of the
	  bureau's headquarters on 24 June, 2002 to demand better
	  pension payments.