The national geological environment management and mine rehabilitation action site meeting was held

The national geological environment management and mine rehabilitation action site meeting was held recently in Jining City, Shandong Province. It is understood that as of 2014, there are still about 2.2 million hectares of damaged land areas in the country that have not been effectively managed.

Jiang Daming, the Minister of Land and Resources, gave an important instruction to thoroughly implement the major decisions and plans of the Central Government on the construction of ecological civilization, adhere to the source of protection, strengthen the implementation of responsibility, vigorously build a "government-led, policy-supported, corporate responsibility, social participation, development-style governance, market-oriented operation" of the new model of geological environment management of mines, and urgently study and propose practical and effective solutions, and introduce guidance as soon as possible, and strive to create a new work situation.

At the meeting, Vice Minister of Land and Resources Wang Min affirmed that China's mine geological environment protection and governance has achieved positive results. At the same time, it was pointed out that the legal system in China's mine geo-environmental protection needs to be strengthened, the task of governance is still arduous, the concept of "emphasis on development, light on protection" has not been fully transformed, the lack of professional and technical standards, the level of science and technology needs to be improved, and in general, it still does not meet the requirements of the new situation.

Wang Min stressed the need to improve the economic mechanism of development compensation and protection, to build a new mechanism of protection and governance with the participation of the government, enterprises and society, to form a new pattern of protection and governance of production mines and historical "old and new problems" as soon as possible, and to comprehensively improve the level of geological protection and governance of China's mines.

By 2025, a dynamic monitoring system will be established to comprehensively grasp and monitor the dynamic changes of the national mining geological environment. The responsibility of mine geological environment protection and treatment and restoration will be fully implemented, the geological environment of new and production mines will be effectively protected and timely treated, and the treatment of historical legacy problems will be significantly effective. The system of mine geological environment protection and management is basically completed, with clear responsibilities, appropriate measures and management in place, and a new situation of mine geological environment protection and management is formed, which "no longer owes new debts, but accelerates the old ones".

Wang Shujian, vice governor of Shandong Province, said at the meeting that Shandong will further improve policies and measures, grasp the implementation of work, and promote the province's land resources and geological environment management to a new level. It is understood that since 2000, Shandong has invested a total of 8.46 billion yuan in geological environment management, restoring 8,014 hectares of arable land and 9,208.2 hectares of forest land, which has effectively improved the ecological environment of mining areas and the living environment of residents.

The meeting was hosted by Guan Fengjun, director of the Department of Geological Environment of the Ministry of Land and Resources. Nearly 200 people attended the meeting, including the person in charge of relevant departments and bureaus of the Ministry of Land and Resources, the person in charge of all provincial (district and municipal) land and resource departments, the person in charge of the Geological Environment Division and the General Geological Environment Monitoring Station, and the person in charge of the China Geological Survey and its affiliated institutions.
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