PDF《2018》

Prepared by Ministry of Natural Resources, PRC China Mineral Resources

2018 GEOLOGICAL PUBLISHING HOUSE BEIJING Chairman: Ling Yueming Vice-chairman: Ju Jianhua Jiang Wenbiao Members: Yu Qinghe Wang Shaobo Wang Quanling Zhuang Shaoqin Liu Jian Liu Shuchen Zhang Zuoheng Zhang Zhi Yang Hulin Yang Shangbing Yang Xuejun Wu Taiping Chen Xianda Yao Yichuan Xiong Zili Bo Zhiping Wei Tiejun Editor-in-chief: Wei Tiejun Associate Editor-in-chief: Yan Weidong Editorial Staff: Ma Xiaojie Ma Jianming Yu Jiangwei Niu Li Deng Feng Yan Shenghao Li Erheng Li Jianzhong Li Xianhai Wang Hanyu Zhang Ying Fan Li Lin Bolei Shan Weidong Zhou Qizhong Hu Jie Jiang Ya Jiang Wenli Luo Tuanjie Zhao Zheng Xu Guifen Xu Shuguang Guo Min Guo Juan Cao Qinghua Lin Zhiyong Pan Xinru Editorial Committee I Foreword Since 2011, the Ministry of Land and Resources has started to organize the preparation of the annual China Mineral Resources (CMR) to effectively improve the public service capacity of mineral resources management departments and promote the disclosure of government information so that the public can better know about China'

s exploration, exploitation and utilization of mineral resources and the latest policies and regulations.

In 2018, the Ministry of Natural Resources was established to integrate the responsibilities of the former Ministry of Land and Resources and other departments to uniformly exercise the responsibilities of the owners of natural resources assets owned by the whole people, and to uniformly exercise all the responsibilities of national land space use regulations and ecological protection &

restoration. The continuous compilation of CMR will enable the relevant departments and agencies at home and abroad, as well as people who care about and support China'

s natural resources undertakings, to better know about the relevant information. The CMR

2018 focuses on such information since

2017 as the new progress in China'

s exploration, exploitation and utilization of mineral resources, mine geological environment protection, and geological and mineral surveys and evaluations;

the new measures in policies and regulations related to mineral resources planning, supervision and management, mining tax and fee system reforms and ecological environment protection;

the new developments in scientific and technological innovation in mineral resources exploration, exploitation and utilization, as well as geoscience theory research;

and the new achievements in international geological and mineral resources cooperation with countries participating in the Belt and Road Initiative. In 2017, the reserves &

resources of coal, oil, natural gas, shale gas, manganese, gold, graphite and so on in China increased. Several giant deposits were discovered, in which of, three new Foreword II China Mineral Resources

2018 coal fields with resources more than

5 billion tons, two gold deposits more than

1 hundred tons, two oil fields with geological reserves more than

100 million tons, and three gas fields more than

50 billion m3 . By the end of April 2018, accumulative geological reserves of shale gas has been more than

1 trillion cubic meters. The investment in oil and gas exploration rebounded to some extent, whilst the investment in non-oil and gas exploration continued to decline. Guided by the strategic thought of ecological civilization, green exploration was advocated, and the use of green environmentally-friendly exploration and exploitation techniques was promoted. Four support policies (i.e. mining right policy, land use policy, fiscal policy, and financial policy) were clearly defined, and the construction of green mines was comprehensively promoted. The mine geological environment management and ecological restoration were actively implemented. The availability of mineral commodities has been continuously strengthened, the demand has kept growing, and the energy consumption structure has been continuously optimized. Policies and regulations on mineral resources have been constantly revised and improved. Some of the administrative approvals were further canceled and decentralized clean-up of land and resources laws, regulations, rules and normative documents involved in the construction of ecological civilization and fair competition review was carried out, so as to further promote the reform of decentralization, supervision and service optimization . The royalty system for mineral resources was established and improved, and the competitive transfer of mineral rights in six pilot provinces was comprehensively promoted. The State Council'