Transferred from: Ministry of Natural Resources of the People's Republic of China

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The decision of the CPC Central Committee on several major issues of adhering to and perfecting the socialist system with Chinese characteristics and advancing the modernization of the national governance system and governance capacity, which was adopted at the Fourth Plenary Session of the 19th CPC Central Committee, comprehensively implements the decision and deployment of the CPC Central Committee on the construction of ecological civilization since the 18th CPC Central Committee, and further clarifies the overall requirements and key tasks of adhering to and perfecting the system of ecological civilization. 2019 Ministry of Natural Resources solid practice green water and green mountains is the silver mountain, mountain, water, forest, field, lake and grass is the concept of life community, adhere to the conservation priority, protection priority, natural restoration-oriented approach, explore and summarize in practice, and strive to form institutional results, and promote the improvement and perfection of ecological protection and restoration system.

"Prohibit pseudo-ecological, real damage projects, eliminate bonsai projects, image projects; resolutely prohibit the use of marine ecological restoration disguised as the implementation of reclamation, illegal occupation of the sea." In April this year, the Ministry of Natural Resources fully deployed to promote the ecological restoration of the Bohai Sea, will improve the science of project implementation to an unprecedented new height, emphasizing the order of ensuring ecological security functions, highlighting the ecosystem function, taking into account the ecological landscape function, find the outstanding problems, follow the laws of nature, reasonably determine the restoration objects and tasks, scientific selection of technical models. At present, the three provinces and one city (Shandong, Hebei, Liaoning, Tianjin) are in accordance with the "one bay a policy, a policy" requirements, all complete the estuary bay comprehensive remediation and restoration program preparation work, marine ecological restoration work gradually.

The Ministry of Natural Resources, with a reforming attitude and pragmatic style, has solidly promoted the ecological restoration of abandoned open-pit mines in the Yangtze River Economic Zone, Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei periphery and The Ministry of Natural Resources, with reform and pragmatism, has made solid efforts to promote ecological restoration of abandoned open-pit mines in the Yangtze River Economic Zone, Beijing, Tianjin, Hebei and Fenwei Plain. On the one hand, efforts to improve the regulatory system, strictly prohibit the construction of mine parks in the name of "bonsai" construction; on the other hand, to encourage active exploration around the policy to lead the social capital investment, timely summary and promotion of experience, play a typical demonstration drive, the formation of a new model of governance can be replicated and promoted. Relevant provinces (cities) vigorously carry out ecological restoration of open-pit mines, and achieved significant results. Hunan Province according to different regions, different types of mining classification policy, the implementation of precision management. Anhui Province to change the previous "cutting slopes to reduce the hidden danger, leveling and greening" simple management model, focus on the ecological restoration of the overall and synergistic, integrated design, system restoration, enhance the rationality and science of ecological restoration, such as landscape, forest, field, lake and grass ecological elements.

On October 25, the Ministry of Natural Resources held a forum on ecological restoration of mines and management of coal mining subsidence areas in Huabei, Anhui Province, to deploy ecological restoration of mines, once again emphasizing the need to adhere to scientific restoration, respect for the laws of nature and the intrinsic mechanism of the ecosystem, classification of ecological restoration, restoring the ecosystem's ability to self-run, self-regulation, self-improvement, and recreate green water and green mountains. The Ministry of Natural Resources also requires that all parties be attracted to participate, follow the laws of the market, reflect the laws of the economy, improve incentive policies, both financial funds to lead, but also to attract social funds and public welfare funds to invest, to achieve ecological benefits, economic benefits and social benefits of unity, so that green water and green mountains into a silver mountain.

Under the guidance of the Ministry of Natural Resources, localities have made positive explorations in establishing incentive mechanisms and widely attracting social capital to participate in ecological restoration. For example, Hebei Province has formulated and introduced a series of support policies to clarify that in the process of ecological restoration of mines lost by the responsible subject, the new arable land suitable for reclamation can be used for the balance of occupation, and the proceeds of the index can be used for the restoration of the mining environment; the construction land index vacated after the reclamation of abandoned mine land can be transferred to a different place for use, etc. Chongqing City, the use of abandoned pits to eliminate construction slag, while solving the difficulties of construction slag disposal and the shortage of funds for the restoration of abandoned mines, and efforts to build a "government-led, policy support, social participation, development-style governance, market-oriented operation" of the new model of ecological restoration of mines, the integration of feasible preferential policies, and actively attract social investment.

In order to promote the successful experience into institutional results, the Ministry of Natural Resources drafted "on the establishment of incentives to accelerate the ecological restoration of mines (draft for public comment)", and to the community for public comment. This document follows the principle of "who restores, who benefits", by giving the right to use natural resources assets for a certain period of time and other incentive mechanisms to attract investment from all parties, the implementation of market-oriented operation, development-style management, scientific use of the model, aimed at solving China's mine ecological restoration of historical debts, the reality of the contradictions, the "old debt" has not been repaid. The "old debt" has not been repaid, "new debt" and other outstanding problems, accelerate the ecological restoration of mines.

Curb the excessive development of mineral resources caused by a series of ecological and environmental problems, the rule of law sword indispensable. To this end, the Ministry of Natural Resources said that in the future revision of the "Mineral Resources Law", to adhere to the ecological priority, green development as the guide, improve the mine ecological protection and restoration system, coordinate the relationship with the "Environmental Protection Act" and other related legal system, promote the construction of ecological civilization in the mining sector, and promote the high-quality development of mining.