China's 13th Five-Year Coal Demand May Be Over 4 Billion Tonnes

Standing at the height of the "Twelfth Five-Year Plan" and long-term development strategy of the coal industry, China's coal industry also faces many contradictions and problems:

First, the degree of protection of coal resources is low, and resource supply faces potential risks. China's large-scale coal fields are mainly concentrated in Shanxi, Shaanxi, Inner Mongolia, and Xinjiang, and most other coal-producing regions have poor resource conditions. The development of coal resources is increasingly concentrated in the western regions of Shanxi, Shaanxi, Inner Mongolia, and other regions. The distance between the coal withdrawal area and the main consumption areas has increased; some coal mining provinces have gradually been transferred to coal provinces, making it difficult to ensure the safe and stable supply of coal throughout the country. Increase. In particular, it is necessary to pay attention to the issue of ensuring coal resources after the “Thirteenth Five-Year Plan” period when the country’s coal demand will increase by more than 4 billion tons year-on-year.

Second, there are many mines, the industrial layout tends to be the same, the benefit of non-coal production value is low, and structural adjustment faces challenges. The number of small coal mines in China is large and the production concentration is low. At present, there are more than 12,000 small coal mines with a capacity of 300,000 tons or less, accounting for more than 80% of the country's total coal mines. As the depth of mining increases, the risk of coal production increases. At present, there are 39 km deep wells in the country (including 24 in Shandong, 5 in Jiangsu, 7 in Liaoning, 2 in Hebei, and 1 in Anhui). The deepest reaches 1,450 meters. The mining industry is faced with the impact of ground pressure, geothermal heat, high pressure water, gas and other natural disasters and occupational health problems. In the development process of coal chemical industry, there are also problems of “reformation of coal”, “coalization of coal”, repeated construction, and overcapacity. Third, the production and consumption of coal continues to increase substantially, environmental issues are highlighted, and the ecological environment is strengthened. At present, a total of 1 million hectares of land has collapsed in the mined-out area of ​​coal mines in the country, and about 60,000 hectares of new mined areas have been newly added each year. Coal gangue has occupied a large amount of land and caused serious soil pollution; CO2, nitrogen oxides, and harmful heavy metal emissions Increasingly, acid rain covers an area of ​​1.2 million square kilometers. Due to the continued rapid growth of coal consumption in China, greenhouse gas emissions remain high and face even more severe international pressures.