Recently, the General Office of the Ministry of Natural Resources and the General Office of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment issued a letter on "accelerating the implementation of the comprehensive improvement of open-pit mines", on the concerted promotion of the comprehensive improvement of open-pit mines put forward new requirements.

The two departments clearly, open-pit mining comprehensive rectification is the State Council "to win the three-year action plan to defend the blue sky" (referred to as "the plan") in an important task, to coordinate the implementation of open-pit mining comprehensive rectification of the work tasks. First, the focus on illegal mining and the main responsible for the loss of open-pit mines, to carry out a comprehensive mapping exercise. Second is to carry out comprehensive rectification of open-pit mines in accordance with the law. In accordance with the law to close the violation of resource and environmental laws and regulations, planning, pollution of the environment, ecological damage, indiscriminate mining of open-pit mines; pollution management is not standard open-pit mines, the law ordered to stop production and rectification, refusal to stop production or resume production without authorization forced to close; the main responsible for the loss of open-pit mines, according to local conditions to strengthen the restoration of greening. Third, strengthen the ecological restoration of open-pit mines. In accordance with the principle of "who mining, who governance, while mining, while governance", guide the mine in accordance with the green mine construction standards, to mine geological environmental protection and land reclamation program and other requirements, ecological restoration. The responsible body lost open pit mine, in accordance with the principle of "who governance, who benefit", give full play to the role of financial funds to speed up the restoration of "government-led, policy support, social participation, development-style governance, market-oriented operation" model. Fourth, the strict control of new open-pit mining construction projects. In principle, new projects in key areas are prohibited, "Plan" issued before the environmental impact assessment documents have been approved by the key areas of open-pit mines, really need to build, in the strict implementation of ecological environmental protection, mineral resources planning and green mine construction industry standards and other requirements can continue to approve the construction of the premise.

The two departments stressed that all areas should establish a comprehensive long-term mechanism for rectification, highlighting key areas, key mining, around the mining access standards, mine upgrading, ecological and environmental management, etc., to develop practical policy measures to ensure the successful completion of the rectification work in 2020.