Cotton Kings planted them in New England. Coal barons scattered them across Appalachia.

棉花大王在新英格兰种出了棉花城，煤炭大亨横贯阿巴拉契亚挖出了煤城。

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For a long time, Chinese coal-mining cities always adopt the development mode of "development and construction around mine", and resulting in more scattered city space structure.

长期以来，我国的煤矿城市大多采取“缘矿而建”的开发模式，由此形成较为分散的城市空间结构。

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