Chapter 38 Resource reserves, are you ready?

"Shanxi's coal will be hollowed out one day," an expert concerned about Shanxi's economy is not without worry. He further pointed out: "Shanxi should build a strategic reserve system for coal resources." As early as the beginning of February 2008, when the country's thermal coal was the most tense, the central government leaders went to the coal mining site in Shanxi, emphasizing that the production of thermal coal in Shanxi should "ensure safety, production, and delivery." Shanxi responded positively to the call and organized forces Go all out to step up production.

However, keeping electricity and coal at all costs has also cost Shanxi a heavy economic price. According to the data, Shanxi has compressed freight and the production of high-profit coals in order to maintain power coal, plus other disaster relief expenses, conservatively estimated to spend more than hundreds of millions of yuan.All this also sounded the alarm to the Shanxi government. Judging from the actual situation in Shanxi, from the perspective of sustainable development, it is imperative for Shanxi to carry out necessary coal resource reserves! Since then, experts and scholars have joined forces to give advice to local departments, emphasizing the need to start from the perspective of sustainable development and start with system and capacity building to build a national mineral resources strategic reserve system.

Indeed, looking at the history of world economic development, we can clearly see that my country's current economic development is in the middle stage of industrialization, that is, the stage of "heavy chemical industry".During this period, it is a "critical transition period" in which a developing country relies more heavily on basic energy sources such as oil and coal in the process of economic development.As we all know, coal is not only the "life money" of our Shanxi economy, but also the "basic" energy source for our country to realize the strategic dream of "the rise of a great power".That is to say, for a long period of time in the future, coal will still be in the "dominant position" in my country's primary energy structure.At this stage, due to the acceleration of economic development, the gradual advancement of urban-rural integration, and a nationwide large-scale infrastructure construction, the country's demand for heavy chemical products such as steel and electricity will increase significantly.This objectively increases the "burden" on the energy industry represented by coal.Based on the above strategic factors, the establishment of a comprehensive, scientific and "advancing with the times" national coal strategic reserve is the inevitable requirement of my country's economic and social development, and it is also the realistic need of our sustainable economic development in Shanxi.Therefore, it is imperative to speed up my country's coal resource reserves!

Facts have proved that from the perspective of comprehensive national development, national security is of course very important, but in the context of the world's energy economy today, a country's energy security is even more important. So what about China? Some experts believe that from a national perspective, China now has a strategic oil reserve, but coal, which accounts for 70% of domestic energy consumption, should have its own strategic reserve plan.The reason is very simple. If China does not have a strategic coal reserve, then we believe that our country's energy security is still very fragile.

As far as the current situation of China's energy situation is concerned, we can first conclude that the basic supporting position of coal in Shanxi's industrial development will not change. Minute". That is to say, the strategic reserve of coal is not only a matter of Shanxi, but also a matter of the state. Some experts believe that the implementation of the national resource strategic reserve should highlight the resource strategic reserve, focus on enhancing the "discourse power" and price "influence" of international resources; focus on the "negotiation power" of resource transactions; focus on dealing with price fluctuations and supply Interrupted "synthetic power".

Therefore, this requires us to plan more from the perspective of macroeconomics and national interests. In this way, judging from the actual situation in Shanxi, some people think that the government can consider the strategic reserve of the main coking coal in the Hedong coalfield and limit the mining. From their point of view, this is mainly because the Hedong coalfield has the best main coking coal in the world. Reserves in one region account for 54% of the country's main coking coal. On the other hand, from the perspective of long-term strategic development, we can firmly grasp the "energy valve" of coal, and then contribute to the overall pattern of national economic development.