Shanxi Leads in Green Mines, Boosts Mining Rights Trading with Market-Oriented Reforms

Currently, Shanxi has established 281 green mines, including 75 at the national level and 206 at the provincial level, with the total number of selected green mines ranking among the top nationwide.

Since 2022, Shanxi has deepened market-oriented reforms in mining rights allocation through methods such as public transfer, approval of exploration rights conversion to mining, and additional allocation of upper and lower resources, providing key support for coal production increase and supply assurance. Particularly since last year, the province has basically established a unified, standardized, professional, efficient, transparent, and publicly accessible mining rights trading system, fully implementing electronic and online trading models and actively integrating into the national unified market. So far, 20 mining rights for coal, bauxite, and coalbed methane have been publicly transferred, with a total transaction value of 117.8 billion yuan, expected to add approximately 29.2 million mt/year of coal capacity and approximately 10 million mt/year of bauxite capacity, fully realizing the value of state-owned resources and continuously promoting diversified development in the mining sector. Shanxi is projected to add roughly 10 million mt/year of bauxite capacity, with 10 bauxite mining rights already publicly transferred.