Energy base Inner Mongolia will appropriately control coal output Article source: Xinhuanet

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2009-02-11 11:13 The reporter learned from the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region Economic Commission and other departments that in order to adapt to the coal market situation and improve the level of the coal industry, Inner Mongolia will appropriately control coal output in 2009 and further optimize the coal industry's production capacity structure. According to the newly released plan, Inner Mongolia requires the coal industry to moderately control raw coal output based on the market supply and demand situation in 2009. In addition to on-site coal conversion projects, Inner Mongolia will focus on promoting the construction of coal projects that have been approved and under construction this year, speed up the integration and technological transformation of the coal industry, and will no longer approve new coal construction projects. In 2009, Inner Mongolia initially plans to produce 470 million tons of raw coal throughout the year, and plans to control the new production capacity of technological transformation and new coal projects within 100 million tons. At the same time, Inner Mongolia will continue to integrate and close small coal mines with an annual output of less than 300,000 tons, and strive to integrate and close at least 30 coal mines throughout the year to complete the annual goal of phasing out 4.78 million tons of backward coal production capacity. At the same time, Inner Mongolia also plans to eliminate 3.9 million tons of backward coke production capacity this year. In addition, in order to improve the comprehensive competitiveness of the coal industry, Inner Mongolia will vigorously promote the integrated development strategy of coal, electricity, chemicals, roads and ports in 2009, further liberalize the coal trading market, cancel local policies such as coal sales tickets, and make coal prices more market-oriented. Inner Mongolia will also support power companies in accelerating the development of their own coal resources, and strive to increase the coal self-sufficiency rate of power generation companies to more than 50% by 2010. As one of my country's largest coal production bases, Inner Mongolia's coal output reached 457 million tons in 2008, a net increase of approximately 107 million tons over the previous year. Article source: Xinhuanet