Reporters from the day before the Shanxi Provincial Coal Industry Bureau learned that in 2017 Shanxi province advanced coal production capacity reached 396 million tons / year, accounting for the province's total coal production capacity of more than 40%.

While promoting the capacity of coal to go ahead, Shanxi will take the development of advanced capacity as an important measure for the structural reform of coal supply side, and vigorously promote the standardization construction of coal mine safety production. In 2017, the coal industry in the province resolved the excess capacity of 22 million 650 thousand tons, closed down 27 coal mines altogether, and 44 coal mines were released by the National Coal Mine Safety Supervision Bureau as the first level safety production standardization coal mine.
According to the data, by the end of 2017, there were 615 production coal mines in Shanxi, with a total capacity of 909 million 800 thousand tons per year. Among them, 46 coal mine safety production license revoked, cancelled the notice; 8 coal mines to reduce capacity, total reduction of 5 million 100 thousand tons / year; 4 mines re announcement, total production capacity of 5 million 400 thousand tons / year; 26 coal mines for the first time the announcement, the total production capacity of 42 million 800 thousand tons / year.
In September 2017, the State Council issued the "on the support of Shanxi to further deepen the reform to promote the development of economic transformation of resource-based views" put forward clearly, to 2020, Shanxi coal advanced production capacity accounted for gradually increased to 2/3, the level of development and utilization of clean and efficient coal is greatly improved, increasing supply capacity.