| 1 | The place went up in flames like a kiln, you know. | |
| 2 | And how do we drive our textile mills, brick kilns, blast furnaces and electric railways - not to mention advanced industrial processes? | |
| 3 | He said authorities learned of the brick kilns through recent local media reports. | |
| 4 | In 2007, the Chinese government vowed to stamp out the problem after the Shanxi brick kiln case . | |
| 5 | But its critics say the government rushed to push it through the rubber-stamp legislature in June in order to assuage public anger over the kilns. |