Recently, Shanxi Province issued a list of coal mines to be shut down in Shanxi Province in 2019 in order to resolve excess capacity. It is announced that Shanxi Province will close 18 coal mines this year, among which 12 are coal mines with an annual production capacity of 600,000 tons or less.
In 2018, 36 coal mines were shut down in Shanxi Province, with a production capacity of 23.3 million tons. By the end of 2018, there were 616 coal mines in Shanxi Province with a capacity of 964 million tons per year. Among them, there are 7 coal mines of 10 million tons per year and above, 20 coal mines of 5 million to 10 million tons per year, 328 coal mines of 1.2 million to 5 million tons per year. 74% of coal mines in Shanxi have an annual production capacity of more than 1.2 million tons.
Shanxi Provincial Natural Resources Department predicts that by 2020, Shanxi Province will orderly withdraw more than 100 million tons of coal excess capacity, and the output of raw coal in Shanxi province will be stable at around 1 billion tons.
Shanxi Province has comprehensively improved the quality of the energy supply system and promoted the optimization and upgrading of the energy industry. The growth rate of the non-coal industry is much faster than that of coal industry.
From January to July, the added value of industrial enterprises above designated size increased by 6.7%. Among them, the added value of coal industry increased by 6.0%, non-coal industry increased by 7.6%. The non-coal industry contributed 54.0% to the province's industrial growth, which was 8.0 percentage points higher than of coal industry.
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