According to the provincial government, in the whole year of 2018, Heilongjiang province totally closed down 245 small-sized coal mines and withdrew 14.83 million tons of backward capacity. In 2019, the province will continuously eliminate backward capacity and accomplish the task of backward capacity reduction.
The coal industry was once one of the pillar industries in Heilongjiang. Aimed at the occurrence of safety hazards, the province launched the work of phasing out backward capacity in coal industry in 2018.
Aside from the closure of small-sized coal mines, Heilongjiang province has strengthened the inspection of coal mines which carry out production in a normal way.
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