China Emergency Management News:

Developing intelligent mine is crucial in promoting high-quality development in the mining industry. What progress has China made in developing intelligent mines? What measures will be taken in the future? Thank you.

Huang Jinsheng:

Thank you for your interest in intelligent mine construction, which is a specific measure for implementing important proposals put forward by General Secretary Xi Jinping regarding new quality productive forces. It also serves as a crucial means of shifting mine safety management towards a more proactive and preventive approach. In recent years, we have implemented a series of measures and introduced many policies to foster significant advancements in intelligent mine construction. 

To enhance top-level design, this April, the National Mine Safety Administration, in conjunction with the Ministry of Emergency Management, the National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the Ministry of Science and Technology, the Ministry of Finance, and the Ministry of Education, issued the Guidelines on Accelerating Intelligent Mine Development and Enhancing Mine Safety. This document provides a systematic plan from a top-level design perspective.

To strengthen technological innovation, we have approved the establishment of five key laboratories related to intelligent mines under the National Mine Safety Administration. We have coordinated to list five projects, such as intelligent tunneling and open-pit autonomous mining, in key national research and development programs. We have also advanced collaboration among mine enterprises, equipment enterprises, universities, and research institutes and achieved breakthroughs in research of key technologies and equipment.

To ensure standard-led development, we have released a system framework for intelligent mine standards and guided relevant departments to set up and revise related standards and specifications. We have issued a specification for intelligent mine data fusion and sharing, which has broken down data silos and eliminated information barriers.

In terms of increasing policy incentives, we have promoted support with approved increase of coal production capacity, the standardization of workplace safety, the central government budget for investment and the withdrawal and use of enterprise workplace safety expenses, and have advanced the inclusion of intelligent equipment in the scope of support for large-scale equipment renewal.

In terms of adhering to demonstration and guidance, we have worked with the National Energy Administration to launch the construction of intelligent demonstration coal mines and have worked with the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology to solicit and announce two batches of 92 typical application scenarios for mining robots. In recent years, a number of typical cases have emerged, such as the Yujialiang Coal Mine of CHN Energy, the Dahaize Coal Mine of China Coal Group, the Sanshandao Gold Mine of Shandong Gold Group and the Xingshan Iron Mine of Shougang Mining Corporation.

With joint efforts from all parties, positive progress has been made in the intelligent construction of mines. By far, the country has built 1,642 intelligent mining workings, the number of coal mines with intelligent workings has reached 859, with over 30 kinds of 2,640 robots and 1,328 unmanned vehicles in use, as well as 17,000 fixed positions achieving unmanned operations.

In the next step, we will continue to offer more support in terms of policy standards, scientific and technological innovation as well as the application of demonstration, so as to advance the intelligent construction of mines to a new level and to lay an important foundation for the intrinsic safety of mines. Thank you.

Xing Huina:

One last question, please.