Weekly Policies and Interpretations on Coal

Coal mine safety work has been deployed in many places, and the intensity of mine safety supervision may be upgraded.
Recently, in order to ensure the stability of coal mine safety production, the main-producing areas have issued a series of documents, demanding strict implementation of the main responsibility of enterprises, departmental supervision and law enforcement responsibilities, and strict implementation of various measures of scientific and technological security and emergency management measures to effectively prevent accidents. Among them, Shanxi governmrnt requires the appraisal and evaluation of coal mine rock burst prevention and control work to be completed by the end of June. Shandong Province has fully deployed coal mine safety production work, and it is required to resolutely fight the "Survival and Defense War" of Shandong coal mines. Heilongjiang adopts the "Four in One" law enforcement method to strengthen the "Physical Examination" of high-risk coal mine safety.
The safety situation of coal mines in the main-producing areas has been severe since 2019. At the closing of the "two sessions", there have been two consecutive safety accidents in Shanxi Province. The safety supervision of the main producing areas is expected to be further upgraded, and the requirements for the resumption of production of coal mines will be more stringent. The supply of coal in the main-producing areas in March is expected to be further observed.
 
Yulin announced that the three batches of resumption mines up to 95. At present, there are only 40 mines in production.
Yulin Energy Bureau issued the “List of the third batch of coal mines in the city that are agreed to apply for resumption of production and resumption of work” on March 11th. The third batch of coal mines in the city's key coal-producing counties reported to apply for the resumption of production were 31 coal mines, involving a production capacity of 13,200 tons/year. The first batch and the second batch of resumption coal mines announced on February 14 and February 24 were 49 and 15 respectively, involving production capacity of 169 million tons/year and 35.6 million tons/year respectively. The three batches involved 95 coal mines with a production capacity of 336 million tons/year, accounting for 73.7% of the total production capacity in Yulin. Recently, the number of resumed production coal mines in Yulin area increases, but the process of resumed production is slow. By March 15, the number of resumed production coal mines has increased from 30 at the end of February to more than 40.