Observation on the difficulties in the current development management of abandoned mines

Take land reclamation as the leading and ecological remodeling as the main line, turn waste into treasure through the development of the secondary industry, eat dry and extract the resources, make the barren mine into flat and fertile land, and then promote the tertiary industry such as ecological tourism and picking through the development of agriculture. The company created the first domestic "land restoration, solid waste utilization, industry to compensate agriculture, ecological agriculture" of the new circular economy model, through the waste mining area ecological restoration marketization, scale, industrialization, to achieve self-generating, rolling development, without government financial investment can achieve sustainable development of the new model. Up to now, the company has invested a total of 70 million yuan, making the original abandoned mine of more than 1,300 acres into a "paradise" full of green eyes, birds and flowers, melons and fruits.

"In recent years, we have actively practiced the concept of green development, taken ecological poverty alleviation as our own responsibility, explored the development model of environmental protection and ecological construction, and created the first domestic circular economy model of 'land restoration, solid waste utilization, industrial supplement agriculture, and ecological agriculture' under non-financial investment, which not only turned the devastated abandoned mine into green water and green mountains, It has also made it a gold and silver mountain for local people to get rid of poverty and get rich, and led three surrounding villages and more than 200 poor people to successfully get out of poverty." Sun Zeling, the company's proud chairman, said.

In fact, this kind of "development-type" geological environment management of abandoned mines, which attracts social capital participation, has been tried in many places in the country, and has achieved remarkable results. Huixian City, Henan Province, through the introduction of social capital, has turned the abandoned mines accumulated in history into tourist attractions and amusement parks, which has driven the local economic development and the increase of farmers' income; Huaxin Cement Dongjun Mine near Kunming Changshui International Airport in Yunnan Province aims to create a green ecological mining recycling economy. In 2008, through the introduction of social funds to jointly carry out mine environmental restoration, it has invested more than 80 million yuan, completed more than 720 mu of green area, and planted 1.37 million trees. The restoration and management of a devastated open-pit mine has become a green world and a sea of flowers.

"Development treatment" faces "intestinal obstruction"

The implementation of "development-type management" of the geological environment of abandoned mines can not only save a lot of financial funds, reduce the pressure on the central and local finances, but also turn waste into treasure and harm into benefit, reduce resource waste, realize the maximum utilization of mineral resources, but also effectively improve the ecological environment and benefit the local people.

However, the reporter of China Mining News found in the grass-roots interview that such a good model of benefiting the country, benefiting the people, benefiting enterprises and benefiting the ecology is not implemented smoothly in many places, and some places even face the harsh environment of abandoned mines and do not know what to do, and dare not carry out "development-type governance".

The reasons for this are that, first, the opinions issued by the relevant ministries and commissions of the State are not specific, only guiding opinions, and there are no specific implementation rules. Although the "Opinions" proposed to vigorously explore the construction of "government-led, policy support, social participation, development-type governance, market-oriented operation" mining geological environment restoration and comprehensive management of a new model, but how to implement the lack of necessary safeguards.

The second is how to coordinate corporate interests and national interests in the process of "development-oriented governance". How to allow "development management", it means that there are certain mineral resources. How to dispose of this part of mineral resources, whether to pay equity fees, whether to handle mining licenses, and whether to allow management enterprises to export the extracted mineral resources to make up for management costs, which has become the key to restricting the large-scale implementation of "development management" at the grassroots level.

Third, "development governance" needs to occupy land, how to transfer the land, how to benefit from governance enterprises, which is the main reason for the low enthusiasm of governance enterprises.

Fourth, some local governments lack responsibility, dare not innovate, and prefer to keep the leftovers and do nothing, rather than take risks in "development" governance.