Yan Pengcheng, director and spokesman of the Policy Research Office of the national development and Reform Commission, said today that with the promotion of capacity production, the number of coal mines nationwide has decreased from 10 thousand and 800 in 2015 to about 7000 in 2017. By the end of 2020, we will strive to form several hundred million ton super large coal enterprises in the whole country. At the same time, we will also develop and cultivate a batch of modern coal business groups.

The national development and Reform Commission (NDRC) held a press conference today. A reporter asked questions. Recently, the 12 ministries and commissions of the national development and Reform Commission and the Ministry of Finance jointly issued the policy document on promoting the annexation and reorganization of coal enterprises. What is the background of this policy? What is the next positive impact on coal and related industries?
In this regard, Yan Pengcheng pointed out that promoting the merger and reorganization of coal enterprises restructuring and upgrading, is an important measure to resolve the coal industry scattered and disorderly, the problem of the weak; is to improve industrial concentration and competitiveness of enterprises, the proper meaning of realizing high quality industry development strategy; also continued to increase coal supply quality, improve the quality of supply, the only way which must be passed energy security safety. In order to promote the relevant work, the Committee and other 12 ministries and commissions jointly issued the "suggestions on further promoting the transformation and upgrading of the merger and reorganization of coal enterprises".
He said that the "opinions" clearly adhere to the market, leading enterprises and government support combination, the merger and reorganization and the elimination of backward production capacity, excess capacity to resolve the combination of integration to promote the development of the coal industry, and constantly improve the industry concentration and optimize the distribution of productive forces. The implementation of the "opinion" will have an important impact on the healthy development of coal and related industries.
First, the concentration of coal industry will be further improved. The number of coal mines in the country has decreased from 10 thousand and 800 in 2015 to about 7000 in 2017. The implementation of annexation and reorganization of coal enterprises will further improve industrial concentration, and the average size of coal enterprises will expand significantly, and the number of middle and low level coal mines will be significantly reduced. By the end of 2020, we will strive to form several hundred million ton super large coal enterprises in the whole country. At the same time, we will also develop and cultivate a batch of modern coal business groups.
Two is the coal industry pattern will be further optimized. The "opinions" from resource endowment, development intensity, market location, environmental capacity, transportation channel such as multi angle, and consider the difference over the support area, through mergers and acquisitions to moderately expand the scale, in some areas of moderate control and reduce the scale of production or even close to exit, further to achieve the layout optimization of coal industry.
Three, the integration of upstream and downstream industries will be further improved. The opinions clearly support the merger and reorganization between qualified coal enterprises, support the development of coal and electricity pool, support the annexation and reorganization of coal and coal chemical enterprises, and support the annexation and reorganization of coal and other related industries. Among them, the coal joint venture, "opinions" put forward a combination of coal transportation pattern, in the eastern region as the focus, promote the coal and power enterprises joint venture coal purchase and sale of long-term stable relationship and scientific and reasonable to carry out large-scale power generation enterprises, support the restructuring of the coal enterprises. These measures are important means to ensure the coordinated, sustainable and healthy development of the two industries of coal and power, which not only help to alleviate the contradiction between coal and electricity, optimize the allocation of resources, but also help the coal industry to solve the low end inefficient capacity and increase effective supply.