Chapter 61 Seven Questions: What would our life be like if coal lost its color?

Nature seems to love Shanxi very much, and puts 1/3 of the country's high-quality coal reserves in this small central province at the core of the Republic. As a result, Shanxi has formed a unique "80" phenomenon in the development models of many provinces and regions in China: one is that Shanxi has formed a typical single economic structure-coal and coal by-product processing accounted for 80% of Shanxi's economic components; Accounting for 80% of the country's coal export sales. According to some statistics, among the more than 30 provinces and autonomous regions in the country, 26 of them use "Shanxi brand" coal.

Therefore, someone made a figurative analogy: "When Shanxi coal catches a cold, the national economy will also cough." This is not an exaggeration to say in the "context" of today's energy economy era. It cannot be denied that Shanxi has made a huge contribution to the national economic development. It cannot be denied how important coal is to China today. It cannot be denied how necessary coal is to Shanxi today. It cannot be denied how much coal is needed for us today. We might as well evaluate a piece of coal against the background of the world's energy economy, and you will find that there is nothing like this "black and dirty" "mysterious substance" that attracts so much attention from people.

Some people say that a country without coal will not have a "coal" and "coal" day, and there will be no powerful driving force for the future. Some people say that a nation without coal will not live a good life with "coal", and will not have a strong force to move towards tomorrow. And with the heat of coal burning, there will be the power to drive the development of a country, and with the light of coal burning, it will be able to illuminate the journey of a nation. In Shanxi, areas that produce coal have a relatively "developed" economy, while areas without coal resources have the opposite situation.

There is such a piece of information that someone once vividly divided the Luliang area into two parts: one is the counties and cities such as Lishi, Liulin, and Xiaoyi, which are called the backbone plate. The reason for this is that there are resources here to dig coal. , can be mined. The "5 counties in the north and south" in this area have no mineral resources, the population accounts for 38% of the whole area, and the fiscal revenue is less than 7% of the whole area. It is an "economically underdeveloped" area in Luliang. Where there are resources, while some mine owners are getting rich quickly, they are also objectively increasing the employment proportion of the local labor force while developing their own entities (coal industry).

This is the unique "coal sucking effect" in Shanxi. Because Shanxi has coal, the coal industry has played a decisive role in the economic development of Shanxi.But at the same time, it has brought "endless troubles" to Shanxi. An official in Shanxi said that Shanxi should provide energy for the country's economic development.In fact, Shanxi Province accounts for more than 1/4 of the country's coal supply; another "fact" under this reality is that 70% of the coal demand in various provinces comes from Shanxi. Here, we venture to ask such a question: If there is no coal, what will happen to Shanxi?