Miner digs deep to solve gambling addiction

By Xu Wei in Chongqing | China Daily | Updated: 2012-05-23 08:06

Above: Zhang Yongqiang, a grocery store owner turned miner, prepares to go above ground after a day's laboring in Chongqing.

Right: Zhang delivers goods from one of his grocery stores. Photos by Gan Xiayi / for China Daily

In others' eyes, Zhang Yongqiang has every reason not to be a coal miner. But Zhang, 39, the owner of two grocery stores and several apartments in Chongqing municipality, has a simple yet adequate reason for working underground: to abstain from gambling.