Editor: Lena
Liaoning Province is a major mining province and has a long history of mining. There are a total of 9,412 mines, of which 2,961 are under construction and 6,451 are abandoned and closed. While making great contributions to the economic and social development of the whole province and even the whole country, the geological and environmental problems of the remaining mines are also very serious. These problems include the destruction of the ecological environment in and around the mining area, the occupation and destruction of a large amount of land resources, the destruction of groundwater aquifers, and the occurrence of secondary geological disasters.
In 2019, Liaoning Province takes the geological environment management and land reclamation tasks of 8,700 acres of production mines as rigid indicators, and strictly implements the acceptance certificate system. In order to ensure the completion of the governance tasks, the Provincial Department of Natural Resources took multiple measures to implement the principle of mining while governing, who develops, who protects. For those mines that have not completed the restoration tasks and have not obtained the mine geological environment restoration treatment acceptance certificate Enterprises will be ordered to make corrections within a time limit. Mining warrants will not be renewed if they fail to make corrections within the time limit. As of December 18, 2019, the province has actually completed the geological environment management and land reclamation of 12,600 acres of production mines, a 45% excess.