Ministry of Natural Resources Showcases China's Mineral Resources 'Family Assets' in Green Mining

　　People's Daily Online, Beijing, December 3 (Reporter Yang Xi) Mineral resource data is an important part of the basic national conditions and national strength. Recently, the 《China Mineral Resources Report 2021》 (hereinafter referred to as the Report) released by the Ministry of Natural Resources shows that by the end of 2020, 173 kinds of minerals have been discovered in China, including 13 kinds of energy minerals, 59 kinds of metallic minerals, 95 kinds of non-metallic minerals, and 6 kinds of water and gas minerals.
　　The report points out that in 2020, China's remaining proven technically recoverable reserves of oil and natural gas reached 3.619 billion tons and 62665.78 billion cubic meters. 96 new non-oil and gas mineral exploration sites were discovered, including 29 large, 36 medium, and 31 small sites. The newly added resource volume (inferred) is 11.964 billion tons of coal, 0.99 billion tons of iron ore, 31.7215 million tons of manganese ore, 858,200 tons of copper, 1.3887 million tons of lead-zinc, and 374 million tons of bauxite.
　　The report shows that China's four main energy minerals, coal, oil, natural gas, and shale gas, are basically distributed in 10 regions: Sichuan, Shanxi, Gansu, Shaanxi, Heilongjiang, Hebei, Xinjiang, Inner Mongolia, Guizhou, and Chongqing.
　　Among them, Xinjiang has more oil reserves, Shanxi has more coal reserves, and Sichuan has more natural gas and shale gas reserves.
　　The report shows that among the main metallic minerals, Sichuan has more iron ore reserves, Inner Mongolia has more lead ore reserves, Yunnan has more zinc ore reserves, Tibet has more copper ore reserves, Guangxi has more manganese ore and lead ore reserves, Jiangxi has more tungsten ore reserves, and Gansu has more nickel ore reserves.
　　The report shows that among the main non-metallic minerals, Hubei has more phosphorus ore reserves, Jiangxi has more fluorite reserves, Heilongjiang has more crystalline graphite reserves, Liaoning has more boracite reserves, and Qinghai has more potash salt reserves.
　　It is worth noting that China's green development of the mining industry has made new progress, and the ecological environment of mines has continued to improve. The report shows that the number of large and medium-sized mines accounts for more than 20%, and the industrial concentration of the mining industry and the level of resource conservation and comprehensive utilization have steadily increased. New progress has been made in the construction of green exploration, green mines and green mining development demonstration zones. Since 2020, China has actively carried out mine ecological restoration, supported the restoration and management of river basins and regional abandoned open-pit mines, and the central government has allocated a total of 2 billion yuan in two batches to support 12 provinces (regions) to carry out ecological restoration and management of historical legacy mines in the Yellow River Basin and the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, and strived to solve the historical legacy mine problems that have an important guarantee for national ecological security, a wide range of ecological benefits, and seriously affect the production and life of the people.