A snapshot of ecological civilization construction in China's mining industry

The injection of social capital has injected a strong impetus into the ecological restoration of mines.

As we all know, due to historical factors, China has a lot of historical debts in ecological protection and restoration, heavy restoration tasks, and large financial pressure, and the government's financial investment has always been limited, so it has been exploring ways out. The 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China clearly proposed to build an environmental governance system with government as the lead, enterprises as the main body, social organizations and the public participating, especially after The General Office of the State Council issued the Opinions on Encouraging and Supporting Social Capital to participate in ecological protection and restoration, under the active promotion of the Ministry of Natural Resources, in recent years, many regions have also emerged a variety of modes of social capital to participate in ecological restoration.

The ecological restoration project carried out by Shandong Sishui Huifeng Agricultural Development Company in Houqiaqi village of Shengshuiyu Town in Sishui County is a successful example. It is understood that in the past, there was indiscriminate mining in the village of Shengshuiyu Town, and there were also large areas of abandoned mining areas, with pits and holes in the mining area, leaving tens of millions of tons of waste stone and tailings. The cultivated land and vegetation have been seriously damaged, the ecological environment is deteriorating, the soil erosion is serious, and the farmers' income has been damaged. In response to the call of the central government to "accelerate the construction of ecological civilization", the Sishui County government actively carried out governance actions. After Huifeng Agricultural Development Company entered, it actively carried out management actions, not only turned waste into treasure, but also produced huge economic benefits, and created a green road to repair abandoned mines.

The barren mountains and hills of the past have now become fields, and a picture of "ecological beauty, industrial prosperity, and people's wealth" is slowly unfolding. In the abandoned mine remediation site, China Mining Newspaper reporter saw that the original abandoned and stacked waste rock, tailings and other industrial solid waste, after iron removal, deep processing, transformed into high-quality sand aggregate; The hillsides that were once strewn with rubble were leveled and turned into fertile fields and orchards. The tailings pond, which used to be overrun with sewage and weeds, has become crystal clear, attracting geese and other migratory birds to roost.

More importantly, through the restoration and management of the ecological environment, it has not only effectively improved the local ecological environment, but also completely changed the local economic development situation, and realized precise poverty alleviation and ecological poverty alleviation. It is understood that after the village of Shengshuiyu Town is a national-level poor village, and now most people in the village have achieved employment at their doorstep. Today, the village has long since removed its poverty cap.

The Dabanqiao limestone mine ecological restoration project, located near Kunming airport, is also a success story. Due to the long history of mining and the open-pit mining method, Dabanqiao limestone mine has been riddled with holes and full of damage. The exposed mine, like a huge scar, is incompatible with the beautiful Spring City and the newly built Changshui International Airport. What is more worrying is that due to the long-term continuous mining of the mine, it has also induced many geological hazards, seriously threatening the life and property safety of the local people.