Manchuria's mightiest industrial enterprise is the Japanese-built Fushun Combine—a nexus of aluminum, shale oil, steel and power plants based on the world's biggest open-pit coal mine.

Recalling Japanese POWs' Life in Fushun In November 1951, Wen Jiuda, an assistant at the Shenyang-based China Medical University, was informed by the university that he would be transferred to a ...