Experts: Coal production and consumption must change

To win the battle to transform the development mode of the coal economy, we must focus on building a transformation of coal production methods and consumption patterns that are consistent with the modern energy industry system. We must adhere to the road of energy conservation, emission reduction, environmental protection, cleanliness, safety, efficiency, and sustainable development.

Changing the mode of economic development is a major strategic plan made by the State Council under the new historical conditions. With the recovery of the world economy and the arrival of the post-international financial crisis, under the background of the overall transformation of the national economy as a whole, the transformation of China’s coal economic development mode has been put on the agenda.

During the more than 30 years of reform and opening up, especially during the “11th Five-Year Plan” period, under the correct leadership of the State Council and the State Council, we have persisted in reforms and opening up and innovation. After the hard work and selfless dedication of millions of coal miners, the coal industry has developed rapidly. . The performance of coal resources has been continuously improved. As of the end of the “Eleventh Five-Year Plan”, the country’s coal reserves have identified more than 1.3 trillion tons of resource reserves; the pace of scientific and technological progress has accelerated, and the economic and technical indicators of most modern mines have reached or exceeded international advanced levels. The level of backward production capacity of the elimination work carried out smoothly, nearly 10,000 small coal mines were closed; coal production levels continue to increase, raw coal production has exceeded 3 billion tons; large base construction has achieved results, 100 million tons above the base has been built 10; The Group’s strategy has steadily advanced, with 5 million tons of large-scale coal enterprises already in existence; the safe production situation is improving, the death rate per million tons has fallen below 1, and the environment in the mining area has been improved. The mining area that has been identified as a national-level circular economy pilot has been More than 10 In general, the basic conditions for the transformation of China's coal economic development mode are already in place.

However, the problems existing in China's coal industry can not be ignored, such as the overall low level of resource support, serious non-optimization of resource allocation, unreasonable industrial structure, increasingly constrained environmental resources, frequent major accidents, and coal markets. Failures are widespread and industry management is relatively weak. With the acceleration of the construction of modern energy industry system projects, if these problems are not solved as soon as possible, it will inevitably affect the process of accelerating the transformation of economic development methods. We must recognize the situation, raise awareness, and take positive actions to accelerate the transformation of the coal economic development mode.

Changing the development mode of the coal economy is the most important task for the entire country to change the mode of economic development. We must make full use of the favourable situation in which the coal economy continues to improve, and we must speed up the advancement and fight this tough battle. To win the battle to transform the development mode of the coal economy, we must focus on building a transformation of coal production methods and consumption patterns that are consistent with the modern energy industry system. We must adhere to the road of energy conservation, emission reduction, environmental protection, cleanliness, safety, efficiency, and sustainable development. Specifically speaking, it is necessary to increase source integration and optimize configuration. It is necessary to increase the supply of coal resources, integrate overly decentralized and non-optimized coal resources, and then allocate limited resources to the hands of coal production actors that represent advanced productivity. Second, we must strengthen coal by science and technology and ensure talents. Science and technology are the first productive forces, insisting on the development of science and technology to strengthen coal. Science and technology rely on talents. Efforts should be made to make efforts in personnel training, optimizing the allocation, and rational use. Third, safety must be the first to ensure supply. Coal production must be "insecure, not production, and production must be safe." At the same time, to ensure supply, we must ensure that the national economy develops coal demand. Fourth, to clean and low-carbon, conscious action. Due to the existence of market failures, it is difficult to achieve clean production and low-carbon consumption, relying solely on the market and the law of value, and therefore it requires the conscious action of the entire industry. Fifth, we must do a good job of the "Big Four" and develop scientifically. That is, do a good job in the "big four" construction of large bases, large conglomerates, large channels, and large markets. On the basis of consolidating and improving the existing bases, we will expand and expand new bases such as Xinjiang; accelerate the merger and reorganization of coal enterprises, and strive to form a group of enterprise groups that represent productivity; strive to build a railway, highway, and waterway transportation network extending in all directions to achieve coal logistics Smoothness; increase industrial concentration, and then break the market's regional restrictions, gradually form a unified national coal market structure. Sixth, we must emancipate our minds and deepen reforms. According to the new thinking of whether it is conducive to transforming the mode of development of the coal economy, deepen and reform the mechanism of the coal economic system, seek change in the reform, and seek development in the transition.

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