Ways For China''s Coal Industry To Break Its Predicament

This year is the “13th Five-Year” stage of the opening years, in the traditional heavy industry in China, “De-capacity” is the largest hot words. China’s coal industry as a industry with big pollution, high energy consumption, long history of development, be in the core position of de-capacity. The State Council has issued an opinion request, from 2016 onwards in principle within three years to stop approval of new coal mine projects. At the same time, China’s other long-term dependence on the coal industry, such as iron and steel, electrolytic aluminum and cement industries, is also in the core capacity to go.March 5 this year, Premier Li Keqiang in this year’s “Government Work Report” proposed: “this year to focus on steel, coal and other difficult industries to production capacity, strict control of new capacity, and resolutely eliminate backward production capacity, orderly withdrawal of excess capacity To take mergers and acquisitions, debt restructuring or bankruptcy liquidation and other measures to actively and securely deal with the ‘zombie enterprises’ central government arrangements for 100 billion yuan special grant funding, focusing on the placement of workers diverted. “So, China’s coal industry in the market and Policy under the attack usher in the winter industry.
China Coal Industry and Water Resources
At the same time, the coal industry is not only often overlooked on the hazards of water resources, but also will make the development of the coal industry worse. Coal and related industries in the production process of water resources in great demand. Especially in China, thermal power plant annual power consumption of water up to 7.4 billion cubic meters, equivalent to one-third of the population of China’s annual water consumption. At the same time, according to the International Energy Agency report, the production of clean coal mine production capacity than the old capacity is even greater.
In the context of such a production structure, China began to water resources more stringent management measures, which will further compress the survival of the coal industry space. According to the People ‘s Network reported that Hubei Province has now introduced the most stringent water resources protection measures, the Yangtze River to take 50,000 water to be required by the government permits. Shanxi Province is an important coal-producing areas, but also the lack of water resources in the province. Today, Shanxi Province has also introduced stringent water resources protection measures, pay close attention to industrial pollution control. In the context of increasingly severe water resources in China, the national policy on the management of water resources in the context of more stringent, coal production environment will be more stringent.
Coal, steel and electrolytic aluminum
After the Paris Environment Conference, environmental protection has become the core of our central policy. The coal and related industries for large polluters, the composition of pollution chain, and the central government’s environmental policy in sharp contradictions. In the coal-related industries, especially in steel, cement and electrolytic aluminum industry, the most serious. Conch Cement can produce more than 200 million tons of carbon dioxide emissions per year, the steel industry in Jiangsu Shagang each year there are 60 million tons of carbon dioxide emissions, while in the electrolytic aluminum industry, Hongqiao Group produces more than 100 million tons per year of carbon dioxide Emissions, a huge number, under the new environmental policy will undergo a rigorous review. Among these industries, the electrolytic aluminum industry is most dependent on coal. Electricity production in electrolytic aluminum accounts for a large part of the cost. China’s aluminum enterprises in general to follow the “Weiqiao model”, of which aluminum enterprises self-built small-scale power plants, coal consumption is greater, more serious sewage, aluminum enterprises in China’s energy-saving environmental transformation of major problems.
China’s coal industry is facing many pressures, in predicament, and in the coal production capacity to be combined with China’s industrial environment, careful implementation. China’s coal development to such a scale, mainly due to China’s more coal less oil and less gas resources. In the old energy structure, the development of coal industry in China is the only choice, and if the process of coal to production capacity, work should not be handled, China’s energy independence and the overall development of the industry may be directly affected. Therefore, China’s coal industry and its closely related industries how to go production capacity in the smooth transition of the policy, which requires multi-party co-ordination, multiple considerations.
Vigorously develop renewable energy
The first is to maximize the development of renewable energy. In the face of large pollution of coal resources, other traditional energy scarcity of circumstances, to develop renewable energy is to ensure energy security, reduce coal consumption and environmental protection of the three balanced strategy.
March 28 this year, the National Development and Reform Commission issued the “renewable energy power generation in full protection of the acquisition of management approach,” proposed to strengthen the renewable energy power generation full protection of the acquisition management to ensure the proportion of non-fossil energy consumption targets. Full protection of the acquisition is not only applicable to abandon the wind, abandoned light, abandoned water, will also be applied to renewable energy sources in the field of biomass power generation, geothermal power generation, marine power generation. In this policy support, China’s renewable energy for the coal industry to the production capacity to meet China’s energy needs to provide an important energy supply buffer.
Labor transformation
Behind the de-capacity, need to pay more attention to the re-employment of coal workers. China’s coal industry practitioners’ average age generally is too large, the cultural level is not high, while mastering a single skill. Now the central government in order to protect the re-employment of coal unemployed, has established a 100 billion yuan mainly for the placement of special funds, if necessary, can also increase. At the same time the central government has also strengthened the unemployment insurance and employment special funds for coal unemployed workers do transformation support.In addition, the placement of people in the need to pay attention to vocational re-employment education support, it is best to be done in the polluting industry and non-polluting industries and even the environmental protection industry in the smooth re-employment for China’s industrial Of the human resources structure of the industry lay the foundation for transformation.
Science and Technology Innovation in Coal Industry
Under the existing conditions, despite the large pollution of coal resources, but completely abandoned in China is unrealistic. This requires a higher level of technological innovation within the coal industry. Especially now that the application of clean coal has not yet reached the economic and energy consumption on the best condition, widely used from the industry there is still some distance, which requires the coal industry in scientific and technological innovation more power. China’s coal industry to industrial transformation in China during the response to the call of the state, look long, so that the traditional resource-intensive and highly polluting industries eventually into technology-intensive industries.
In China’s coal industry into the winter, if the strategy properly deployed, its spring will soon come. To this end, we need in the new situation of the green transformation of the industry, technological innovation. China’s coal industry personnel to have the bigger picture, in our industry to take ownership of the responsibility for China’s manufacturing industry in China under the new normalization of the economy to provide adequate support.