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To meet challenges with concerted efforts and cooperation for sustainable prosperity and steady development of mining industry
---Speech on the 13th China Mining delivered by Wang Min, vice minister of Land and Resources and director of China Geological Survey
Source: Portal Website of Ministry of Land and Resources   Citation: Portal Website of Ministry of Land and resources   Date: November 6, 2011

Respected Guests, Ladies and Gentlemen,
The world economic recovery is facing opportunities and challenges when entering the second decade of the 21st century. 2011 China Mining will focus on “strengthening international cooperation and accelerating geological exploration & mine development”, expressing to the international mining world our wishes to ensure sustainable prosperity and steady development of the mining industry based on mine exploration, and reflecting our common expectation of promoting strong and sound growth of the industry. Since the start of this year, China’s economic growth has   continued to develop as what macro control expects, maintaining good momentum for development. Particularly, mining industry provides important support for our economic and social development. Mining investment keeps growing. In the first three quarters of this year, the investment in mining industry expanded 27.9 percent from a year earlier to 2.60 trillion Yuan, outpacing the 24.9 percent growth in fixed assets. Specifically, the investment in mine exploitation rose 17.3 percent year on year to 754.2 billion Yuan. The coal mining industry investment continued to take the lead with a growth of 24.6 percent on a year-on-year basis ; the petroleum and natural gas extraction investment grew by 1.5 percent from a year earlier; and the other minerals exploitation investment increased steadily. The investment in smelting and processing of both metal and non-metal grew rapidly, especially for the non-ferrous metal. Prospecting mineral resources goes smoothly. In the first three quarters of this year, our investment in non-oil and gas exploration increased 33.3 percent from a year earlier to 36 billion Yuan. A total of 851 newly transferred mining exploration rights for non-oil and gas mainly centered on such metal mineral resources as gold, copper and iron. The registered areas for non-oil and gas exploration reached 747,000 square kilometers, generally flat with previous years. More than 9,600 minerals exploration projects will drill 10 million meters (up 16 percent year on year). Another 146 fields for coal, iron, copper, tungsten, molybdenum, gold, rare earth and rock phosphate reserves have been found in such provinces as Xinjiang, Hebei, Shandong, Shanxi, Jiangxi, Anhui and Jiangsu. The recoverable large and important mineral deposits still grew rapidly against the backdrop of increasing exploration. Mining production maintains a steady growth. In the first three quarters of this year, the total planned non-oil and gas exploration edged up 4.6 percent from a year earlier to 14.54 billion tons per year. A total of 3,949 mining rights for non-oil and gas were transferred. China produced 154 million tons of crude oil (up 2.2 percent year on year), 2.691 billion tons of crude coal (up 11.6 percent year on year), 322 million tons of coke (up 13.8 percent year on year), 946 million tons of iron ore (up 24.5 percent year on year), 25.86 million tons of 10 non-ferrous metal (up 11.2 percent year on year), 259 tons of gold (up 4.2 percent year on year), 57.25 million tons of rock phosphate (up 30.6 percent year on year) and 1.51 billion tons of cement (up 18.1 percent year on year). China’s output of large minerals continue to rally from a year earlier, and output of coal, 10 non-ferrous metal and cement taking the lead in the world. And domestic supply for minerals keeps growing. Mineral prices are stabilizing. China`s minerals prices continued to rise for the first three quarters of this year, and some of them fell back in the third quarter, showing more volatility. The spot price for crude oil in Daqing field averaged US$110.3 per barrel, up 45 percent from a year earlier. The average price for quality coal was lifted 9.9 percent year on year to 783.7 Yuan per ton. The average price for iron ore fell from 1,430 Yuan per ton to the current level of around 1,200 Yuan per ton. The cooper price fell from 70,900 Yuan per ton in early July to 55,900 Yuan per ton at the end of September, with average price of 69,000 Yuan per ton. The aluminum trades in a narrow range of 16,500 Yuan per ton to 17,200 Yuan per ton. The gold price dropped from 390 Yuan per gram in late August to 335 Yuan per gram by the end of September. The factors that push mineral prices up were tamed to some extent with tighter macro control. Import and export business of minerals is brisk. In the first three quarters of this year, China`s total import and export value of minerals expanded 34.5 percent from a year earlier to US$704.558 billion. Specifically, the import of petroleum rallied 5.2 percent year on year to 219 million tons. The import of coal edged up 1.1 percent from a prior year to 124 million tons, while the import of iron ore rose 11.1 percent year on year to 508 million tons. The import of copper concentrate dropped 6.6 percent from a year earlier to 4.63 million tons, while the import of scrap copper increased 7.6 percent year on year to 3.22 million tons. The alumina import plunged 22.4 percent from a year ago to 3.18 million tons. Mine environment improved. In 2009, The Ministry of Land and Resources of China promulgated the “Regulations on Mine Geological Environment Protection “to further improve accountability mechanisms and supervision mechanisms for protection and recovery of mine geological environment in the background of market economy. To address the long-standing mine geological environment issues, a project titled "transformation of 100 mines" was implemented for 3 consecutive years in resource-exhausted cities. During the "Eleventh Five-Year" period, the central government had invested RMB 12.9 billion in mine recovery, compared with RMB 50 billion for the corresponding investment from local governments, enterprises and private sector, which boosted the recovery rate to leap to 30%, or even 50% in some areas. Ladies and gentlemen,
China has stepped on a fast track of industrialization, urbanization and economic growth. In this context, China needs to make breakthrough in mine exploration to ensure resource supply, improve resource utilization by applying sophisticated technologies, and enhance resource efficiency by creating innovative mechanism. China has and will continue implementing a resource-conservation strategy during the 12th Five-Year Plan period. It will fully control the amount of resources to be used, regulate both demand side and supply side, and promote differentiated administration. In this way, China will lift its efficiency in using mineral resources to a new level and improve its capacity to ensure resource supply. The sustainable development of mineral resources will contribute to a sustainable socio-economic development. First of all, we will fully implement the strategy of accelerating geological exploration & mine development. We will make a balanced use of both domestic and overseas resources and markets, with a firm basis on home market, further ensuring the supply of resources. After years of survey and review, we have a general understanding of our resources and potential. The exploration has become very effective, and the supply is further ensured. Additional resources in Xinjiang, Qinghai, Yunnan and Tibet have been identified and are taking shape. We will accelerate the strategy of geological exploration & mine development, with a focus on key metallogenic regions and mineral types. Geological survey and resource exploration will be strengthened to push for a breakthrough and the building of large mineral resource bases.  We will carry out a new exploration mechanism that gives priority to publish interests, focuses on financing support and commercialization, and emphasizes fast progress by coordinated exploration. We will establish a market-oriented working pattern that puts premium on technology, inter-departmental coordination, and systematic integration with enterprises as primary carriers. That said, we will lay emphasis on building a market-oriented exploration mechanism, expanding diversity of investors, and introducing coordinated exploration. On the part of the government, the key responsibility is to administer the basic geological survey and outlook research for key metallogenic regions, manage resources through economic and legal means, and properly leverage the geological exploration funds, resource taxes and resources compensation fees. The government should redouble its efforts to create a favorable environment for the geological exploration. Currently, the Ministry of Land and Resources has set up 47 blocks for strategic and coordinated exploration in 19 metallogenic regions across the country. The ministry has published the Notice on Improving Mining Rights Management for Coordinated Exploration.（No. 55 [2011] of the Ministry of Land and Resources） It will complete the review of mining rights proposals oriented towards coordinated exploration areas before year-end, and incrementally offer new mining rights to the market. The strategic campaign of accelerating geological exploration & mine development follows the principles of benefiting the investors and providing rewards to those who find mines. Also, the campaign will focus on preemptive planning, resource integration, and information transparency. The fruits will be shared and benefits will be well distributed. According to above-mentioned, we warmly welcome the active participation of domestic and overseas mining and exploration enterprises. Second, we should push forward the conservation and comprehensive use of mineral resources. Resource conservation constitutes a basic state policy of China. China’s Ministry of Land and Resources and Ministry of Finance have signed agreements with the People`s Governments of 21 provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the central government) to boost conservation and comprehensive use of mineral resources. By setting up "demonstration projects" and promoting "demonstration base construction", China provides incentives and guidelines for mining enterprises to better develop mineral resources. Efforts will be made to promote the comprehensive exploration of low-grade, refractory and mixed mineral resources, and advance hi-tech approaches for resource conservation and comprehensive use so as to improve overall development and utilization efficiency. China will create standards for conservation and intensive use of mineral resources, minimum standards for mining exploration, and indices including mining recovery rate, dressing recovery percentage and comprehensive utilization ratio based on mineral types. China will step up efforts to formulate and implement the Administrative Measures for Promoting Mineral Resource Conservation and Comprehensive Utilization. Third, step up efforts in mining industry restructure and green mine construction. Specific measures include strict implementation of the mineral resources planning, continuous promotion of development and integration of mineral resources, and full implementation of the mining rights planning system. Also, based on the resource situation, geological background, development conditions and market demand, a reasonable set-up and granting of mining rights is necessary to ensure rational distribution of the new mining rights and on-going improvement on existing mining rights. In this way, the root cause of ill-distributed mining rights will be eliminated, which will promote mining restructuring and development mode and enhance the scale and intensiveness of development of mineral resources. In addition, the scope of pilot projects of green mine construction should be further expanded to over 600 demonstration mines within 5 years. Models will be set in the areas of scientific mining methods, efficient use of resources, standardization of enterprise management, environment friendly processes, and ecology-oriented mine environment improvement. Other moves may include perfecting the green mine construction standards, and strictly managing mineral development. Specifically, for new mines, entry management should be conducted in strict accordance with green mine construction standards and for mines in operation, continuous improvement of development and utilization methods should be urged and a deadline for meeting relevant standards will be set. As our target, by 2020, a green mine landscape will have been well formed with large and medium-sized mines meeting green mines standards and small mining enterprises being managed in strict accordance with green mining standards. Fourth, we will further improve mineral resources management. We will accelerate the reform of mining rights review system, and delineate the rights of central and local authorities. Efforts will be made to reform the system for mining rights allocation. Regulations will be improved for the transfer of mining rights, while competition is encouraged. We will perfect physical markets for mining rights on the provincial level and municipal level. Also, we will explore the possibility of online transfer of mining rights and set up a uniform system of rules on mining rights trading. We will launch unified online identification number for mining rights, making sure the rights transfer information is published and open to the public via online inquiry. Efforts are made to encourage and guide the private investment, and fully open the mining rights market to private investors. We will improve the mining resources pricing system, and exploration interest distribution mechanism. We will overhaul the resource tax system. The State Council has amended the Provisional Regulations of the People`s Republic of China on Resource Tax, adding the “rate on value” principle to the existing fixed-sum tax rate method. The State Council has adjusted the collection methods and resource tax on crude oil and natural gas, and adjusted the standards for resource tax on coking coal and rare earth. Efforts are also stepped up in protection and development management for important mineral resources to maintain mine environment and keep development and utilization of mineral resources in order. Ladies and gentlemen,
Thanks to efforts by the global community, the world economy still keeps moderate recovery, although the process is not as accelerated as what we expect. It is full of change and uncertainties. Compared with other industries, mining presents a better development prospects. Global mining market continued to boom. The world demand for petroleum would increase 1 percent a year, and many institutions predict that the demand of the year would be higher than previous year. The output of OPEC oil edged up by months. Russia is likely to set a new record of 500 million tons of annual output for oil, and US oil output rebounded to a recent ten-year high. Some companies predicted that an annual increased production of 100 million tons of coal and iron ore in the next few years can meet the needs of the rising demand. Large multinational enterprises are massively expanding the capacity of iron ore, which may lead to a change in its supply and demand. The growth of demand for copper and aluminum may be above 5 percent and 8 percent respectively. The gold output is estimated to increase 5 percent. Developed countries set strategies revolving around new technology-based minerals. Both EU and US increased their research on availability in raw materials of such new-technology-based minerals as rare earth, cobalt, niobium, tantalum, and indium. International mineral prices fluctuate around high levels. Commodity price remains high as some countries stick to a loose monetary policy and global liquidity is abundant. The crude oil price shot up in the first four months of this year, and sharply fluctuated from May. US crude oil futures fell almost 30 percent from US$110 per barrel in late April to US$80 per barrel at the end of September. Coal prices remained high, and iron ore price picked up. Such precious metals as gold, silver, platinum, and palladium sharply increased: the prices of gold, silver and platinum were higher than that of pre-financial crisis; and the silver price even grew more than that of gold. Some metal prices, including copper, lead, zinc and nickel fell back. Global mining investment sustains rapid growth. The global mining industry has bottomed out, with total investment in the projects expanding 21 percent from a year earlier in 2010, and 14 percent from a year earlier in 2009. There were more than 100 new mining investment projects for over US$60 billion in 2010. The investment of non-solid fuel minerals exploration reached US$11.2 billion in 2010, second to that of US$13.8 billion in 2008, recovering from the decrease due to financial crisis in 2009. The investment of global non-solid fuel minerals exploration is expected to hit US$13-14 billion in 2011, which indicates that the global mining is backing on track. Mining companies accelerate merger and reorganization. In the first half of this year, the trade value for 1,379 global mining merger and acquisition surged 80 percent year on year to US$71 billion Yuan, hitting a record high. Canada, Australia and European countries still play a leading role in the M&A business for coal, iron, copper, gold and potassium. China accounts for low share in overseas mining M&A business, with the trade value falling 18 percent from year earlier to US$4.7 billion. In the second half, the process of global mining M&A slowed down. The trade value and volume declined 32 percent and 19 percent month on month respectively in July, and continued to drop 25 percent and 7 percent in August. The global mining industry continued to turn its focus to the areas located in equator, or even south of the equator. The production and market share for major minerals are dominated by a few companies in the world. Ladies and gentlemen, As the world is at a critical stage in its struggle for economic recovery, the robust growth of global mining industry requires industry-wide confidence, intensified cooperation, communication and coordination. We should speed up the pace in building a fair, rational, sound, and stable economic order for the mining industry. Governments worldwide should assume their responsibilities, so should the people from mining, financial and trade industries. We should safeguard the mining investment and the market stability. For that purpose, I’d like to put forward three proposals: First, we should adopt new philosophy for resource exploration. As is known to all, mineral resources are not only scarce and exhaustible, but also dynamic, systematic, and open. There should be an integration of quantity, quality and ecology. While implementing regulation on a quantity basis, we should improve quality management and ecological protection. We should manage exploration with a philosophy that sees quantity, quality and ecology as an integrated system. Resource conservation, as a priority, should go hand in hand with exploration, so that limited resources can be put into better use. We should stick to market openness, thus realizing optimized resource allocation on a broader basis, and bringing into play the respective regional strength. We should promote fairness, and protect the legitimate rights and interests of resource owners, investors, exploration companies, and the local people. A balance should be struck in protecting the interests of all parties concerned. Moreover, ecological protection should not be left behind. We should shoulder the responsibility of ecological restoration, making sure the mining activity would not damage the environment. We should raise the threshold for market access, selecting eligible and socially responsible companies for mining exploration. Second, we should deepen pragmatic cooperation in the global mining industry. China’s opening up to the outside world, as a basic state policy, will remain unchanged. China will steadfastly implement mutually beneficial and win-win opening strategy. We should proactively participate in economic globalization and mining cooperation, oppose protectionism, and press ahead with a fair and rational trading and investment system for the global mining industry. Efforts should be made to improve foreign-related mining laws, regulations and policies, making China’s mining investment climate more standardized, transparent, and favorable for investors. We are ready to beef up our overseas mining investment, expand mineral products trading, and guide and support strong and credible domestic mining companies to invest overseas and strengthen cooperation with their international mining counterparts. Governments worldwide should promote dialogue and consultation, policy coordination, mutual investment, and carry out bilateral and multilateral mineral resource cooperation. Third, we should intensify international technological cooperation in mining industry. Mining exploration is a technology-intensive industry. With the increasing difficulty in mineral prospecting and stricter requirements on exploitation, we should innovate our ideas, techniques, methods and facilities. Efforts should be made to improve inter-governmental technological cooperation mechanism and the cooperative R&D mechanism among mining companies. Centering on innovative R&D for the key and comprehensive use technology in exploration, metallogeny and mineral prospecting, we should further expand our technical force, promote information exchange, and intensify exploration technology collaboration. Efforts should be made to advance hi-tech application in geological exploration and mining development, and bridge the technical gap between various countries. We should also push forward a platform for international technological cooperation in mining exploration. We should draw upon and disseminate each other’s hi-tech approaches by diverse means, including developing key technological cooperation projects, launching earth science programs, holding seminars and training, conducting joint R&D, and setting up cooperation demonstration projects. Ladies and gentlemen, In the near future, mineral resources will still be critical to the economic and social development, and mining industry will make much difference to the world economy. In view of China`s socioeconomic development, we stick to the basic principle of "ensuring domestic supply capacity of resources”. We are mobilizing what is available on every front to achieve the goals of "significant progress within three years, major breakthroughs within five years and a brand new landscape for mine exploration and development within eight to ten years" for the campaign of “geological exploration & mine development”. We are convinced that China’s mining industry is sure to develop better and faster, and make new contributions to a sustainable development of the global mining world. Thank you!
 (November 6, 2011, Tianjin, China)

Vice Minister of Land and Resources Yun Xiaosu presides over Theme Forum of CHINA MINING 2011
Source: Portal Website of Ministry of Land and Resources   Citation: Portal Website of Ministry of Land and resources   Date: November 6, 2011

Vice Minister of Ministry of Land and Resources Mr. Yun Xiaosu presides over Theme Forum of CHINA MINING 2011: Strengthen International Cooperation, Accelerate Geological Exploration & Mine Development.

South African Mining Minister Susan Shabangu addresses the CHINA MINING 2011
Source: Portal Website of Ministry of Land and Resources   Citation: Portal Website of Ministry of Land and resources   Date: November 6, 2011

Thank you, Minister Xu, all delegates, Tianjin Municipal Government, Mayor of Tianjin, Mr. Oliver, all delegates present today, ladies and gentlemen，

I feel so honored to attend this congress today. The congress is a very important mining event. CHINA MINING 2011 is a grand event. We believe it is a rare opportunity not only for South Africa, but also for many other countries. I believe it is crucial to our future cooperation in the mining industry. We may say that South Africa has a fully-fledged legal structure. We support and encourage investment in mine exploration, prospecting and mining in South Africa, and at the same time we provide everybody a favorable environment. In face of various challenges and problems for the mining industry, our government all gives active response and solutions. We also expect to facilitate the friendship and cooperation between both countries through the congress.

Meanwhile, we facilitate the mining development in South Africa and cooperation between South Africa and other countries in many aspects. I believe that our policies will encourage investment from foreign countries in South Africa in many aspects. I believe that we will have a sustained cooperation and development not only with China, but also with some other countries. Especially in terms of mineral resources, we believe that there will be promising and sustainable development between South Africa and China. Both of our countries should complement each other’s advantages in terms of mining development. I believe that both countries encourage investment from other countries. Over the past years, both countries have carried out mining development and cooperation which no doubt will generate impact on next several generations. Moreover, I believe that South Africa will give active response to needs of our own country as well as other countries regarding prospecting and mining, guarantee the investment from everybody in our country and create a favorable environment to facilitate the cooperation and development with China in all aspects and preserve efforts and projects contributed by Chinese companies and other companies to the mining development in South Africa. I am deeply convinced that our government has given active response to the fields such as renewable energy, low-carbon and green development, and taken active actions to facilitate the development in this respect. We continue the worldwide mining cooperation with China and other countries. Our aim is that all our current mining and related infrastructure will be used to support the development and investment from all other countries in South Africa. Lastly, I hope that there will be more South African companies which establish cooperation and friendly communication with Chinese companies through CHINA MINING  2011.

Thank you!

Minister Xu Shaoshi gives a speech at the Opening Ceremony of CHINA MINING 2011
Source: Portal Website of Ministry of Land and Resources    Citation: Portal Website of Ministry of Land and Resources    Date: November 6, 2011

Ladies and Gentlemen, Friends, CHINA MINING 2011 grandly opens today. On behalf of the Organizing Committee and the Ministry of Land and Resources of the People’s Republic of China, I convey sincere welcome to all delegates, and high respect and best wishes to all delegation leaders! The Chinese government highly values this event as it is an important platform for international mining exchange and cooperation. A leader from the State Council of China has sent a congratulatory letter to express congratulations to the congress and good wishes from the Chinese government for promotion of mining cooperation and development. Ladies and gentlemen, one year ago, we grandly convened here to jointly explore development strategies of the international mining industry with cooperation, responsibility and development as the theme. Over the past year, through joint efforts of all the colleagues under the guidance of the theme, we are glad to see that many of the cooperation projects have resulted in fruitful achievements. Besides, we have displayed higher value while assuming more responsibilities, coping with the international financial crisis and promoting the world economic recovery, which definitely will go down in history as common spiritual wealth of the international mining industry. The impact of the international financial crisis currently still continues, and the world economic recovery is slowing down. Unstable and uncertain factors have obviously increased. At this critical moment, the colleagues from the international mining circles are even more required to keep intensifying the exchange and cooperation to live through the hardships together, and actively speed up the prospecting breakthrough to light up our confidence. This congress is themed with Strengthen International Cooperation, Accelerate Geological Exploration & Mine Development, which is very target-oriented and realistic. I believe that all the delegates will surely carry out profound exchange and active cooperation during activities like forum discussion and project negotiation by firmly sticking to the congress theme, and make constant efforts to promote the international mining development and uphold the world economic recovery. Ladies and gentlemen, this year is the first year that China launches the “Twelfth Five-Year Plan” on economic and social development. The “Twelfth Five-Year” is a crucial period for China’s across-the-board construction of well-off society, and also a hard-battle period for intensification of reform and opening-up and acceleration of economic development mode transformation. China’s mining industry is confronted with not only new development opportunities, but also more severe challenges. We are clearly aware that the synchronous fast development of industrialization, urbanization and agricultural modernization definitely is bound to facilitate the rise in rigid demand for mineral resources with the restriction from resources and environment further standing out. We must actively cope with the issue by taking multiple measures and strive to enhance the guarantee capacity of mineral resources for economic and social development. 1. Sticking to the strategy of giving priority to conservation and facilitating sustainable economic and social development through sustainable utilization of resources. We should actively implement the strategy of giving priority to conservation proposed by the “12th Five-Year Plan”, carry out control over overall resource utilization, supply-demand two-way regulation and differentiated administration, and vigorously improve the efficiency of energy resource utilization. Besides, we should actively push forward conservation and comprehensive utilization of mineral resources, implement demonstration projects on conservation and comprehensive utilization of mineral resources with focus on enterprises, actively promote high technologies on conservation and comprehensive utilization and cultivate a batch of demonstration bases for comprehensive resource utilization to continuously improve comprehensive exploration, appraisal and utilization of mineral resources, and facilitate the economic development mode transformation by improving resource utilization efficiency. 2. Implementing the prospecting breakthrough strategy and enhancing resource guarantee capacity based on domestic reality. We will strive to implement the prospecting breakthrough strategy, increase efforts in basic geological survey and exploration of major minerals, achieve breakthroughs in promising prospecting areas of major oil-gas bearing basins and key mineralization zones and set up a number of important resource succession areas to provide favorable resource guarantee and industrial support for steady and relatively fast economic development. Moreover, we expect foreign mining enterprises to invest in China’s mining industry, and at the same time we encourage competent Chinese mining enterprises to actively engage in international cooperation on mineral resources. 3. Increasing efforts in system innovation and taking full advantage of fundamental role of market in allocating resources. We will accelerate the improvement of system and mechanism, properly handle beneficial relations between the central government and the local government, and the government and the market, stick to integration of market regulation and government guidance, and take full advantage of fundamental role of market in allocating resources. We will also push forward the new geological prospecting mechanism across the board, which is prioritized public interest, business follow-up, fund link-up, assembled exploration and rapid breakthrough, strive to establish a market-oriented system platform and fully mobilize the initiative of all parties to further attract social funds into commercial mineral exploration and exploitation. Furthermore, we will vigorously advance technological innovation and strengthen technological support and progress to promote geological prospecting development. 4. Keeping balance between resource development and environmental protection and promoting the green, low-carbon and sustainable development of China’s mining industry. Under the principle of integrating quantity, quality and ecology in an organic manner, we will enhance the administration and preserve the order of mineral resource exploration and exploitation. By sticking to balance between development and protection, we will upgrade the mining access level for eco-environmental fragile areas in terms of policy, funds and technology, vigorously develop green mines and strengthen mine geological environment protection and restoration management to enable mutual promotion and cooperation between mineral exploration and exploitation and environmental protection and make the mining development benefit the local people in a tangible manner. Ladies and gentlemen, the world’s population has gone beyond 7 billion. How to make the limited mineral resources on the earth support and guarantee sustainable development of human society, not only satisfying needs of the contemporary people, but also leaving behind living and development space for our offspring, it is not only a question requiring each one of us on this planet to seriously think about, but also a task requiring mining colleagues to be duty-bound to assume and work on. The imbalanced distribution of the world’s mineral resources determines that no country can possibly achieve self development by relying completely on its own resources; instead, all the countries are required to fulfill reasonable allocation of resource elements around the world. It also determines that our mining colleagues must comply with welfare of all mankind while ensuring self interest, and pursue further development in the process of promoting development and prosperity of the world’s mining industry. There is an important symbol in Chinese culture which is “HE” (meaning harmony in Chinese). “HE” leads to symbiosis, and difference, which should also be the value for mining colleagues to carry forward. Promoting the realization of win-win cooperation and harmonious development of the international mining industry, and even the global economy, is not only an eternal theme of the international mining development, but also the value of establishing and holding the China Mining. Therefore, I propose that we join hands together to expand exchange, form consensus, enhance cooperation and strive for establishing an environment-friendly, innovation-driven, inclusive and harmonious new international mining order. I deeply believe that the world’s mining development will surely usher in a better future through joint efforts of all of us. Finally, congratulations in advance to a complete success of CHINA MINING2011. Wish all the delegates smooth work and good health. Thank you all.

Ministry of Land and Resources holds a news briefing on CHINA MINING 2011
Source: Portal Website of Ministry of Land and Resources Citation: Portal Website of Ministry of Land and Resources Date: October 21, 2011

On the morning of October 21, 2011, the Ministry of Land and Resources holds a news briefing on CHINA MINING 2011. (Photo by Cao Jidong)

Director of Department of International Cooperation & Science and Technology under Ministry of Land and Resources and Executive Deputy Director of the Office of the Organizing Committee of the congress, Jiang Jianjun is giving a briefing on CHINA MINING 2011. (Photo by Cao Jidong)

Dear Guests and Media Friends, Good morning! To extensively publicize and introduce the work carried out by the Chinese government in improving mining investment environment among international mining circles in order to facilitate external cooperation of Chinese mining enterprises, the Ministry of Land and Resources started to hold CHINA MINING International Workshop in 1999, renamed the event CHINA MINING in 2005 and has successfully held it for 11 sessions so far. As an external cooperation brand of China’s mining industry, CHINA MINING has become an important platform for Chinese and foreign mining enterprises and related institutions to acquire related information and seek cooperation opportunities. As the largest mining event in Asia and one of the world’s top four mining events, it has increasingly received high attention from the international mining circles. 1. Event preparations 1.1 Event general information Approved by the State Council, jointly sponsored by the Ministry of Land and Resources and Tianjin Municipal People’s Government and co-organized by the National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Science and Technology, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Environmental Protection, the Ministry of Commerce, China Development Bank, Import-Export Bank of China and Bank of China, CHINA MINING2011 is scheduled to be held in Tianjin during November 6-8, 2011. Themed with “Strengthen International Cooperation, Accelerate Geological Exploration & Mine Development”, the congress will extensively publicize China’s reform and opening-up policies on the mining industry and discuss special topics such as sustainable development of global mining industry, situation and analysis on global mineral prospecting, mining industry and capital market, mine environment and mine park, comprehensive mineral utilization, etc. The international mining circles paid high attention and gave active response to this session of congress. Up to October 19, there have been over 2,500 delegates apart from domestic ones from nearly 40 countries and regions signing up for the congress and the exhibition. Mining ministers and vice ministers or directors-general of geological bureaus from more than 20 countries (regions) such as Australia, Canada, South Africa, Peru, Philippines, Sudan, Eritrea, Kyrgyzstan, Burundi, Zimbabwe, Tanzania, Ethiopia, Zambia, Tadzhikistan, Greenland, Argentina, India, Laos, Pakistan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Cambodia and Mongolia will lead respective delegations to attend the congress. A total of nearly 200 international organizations, large mining enterprises and financial institutions such as OECD, BHP Billiton, Anglo American, Standard Bank, Aluminum Corporation of China, China Minmetals Corporation, China National Gold Group Corporation, BOC International, China Railway Resources Group Co., LTD, ZRHL Group, Datong Coal Mine Group, Shandong Gold Mining, Shandong Zhaojin Group and Zijin Mining Group will attend the congress. 1.2 Event activities The congress will organize three main forums including theme forum, foreign mining ministerial forum and enterprise development summit forum as well as 23 sub-forums and 6 mining cooperation project promotion conferences. Among them, the sub-forums organized by related departments and institutions under the Ministry of Land and Resources include: situation and analysis on global mineral prospecting, policy interpretation on mining right management, Sino-Canada mineral resource management forum, mineral reserve management and geological data socialized service, mine environment and mine park, geological prospecting and technological innovation, China’s geological prospecting progress, analysis on supply-demand situation of international important mineral raw materials, and situation and policy on comprehensive mineral utilization. Besides, there are sub-forums held on such themes as international mineral market, mining industry and financial capital market, macro economy and mining industry, sustainable development of mining industry, enterprise overseas investment, etc. During the congress, there will be also six mining cooperation project promotion (invitation) conferences to mainly promote mining cooperation projects and investment opportunities in countries and regions such as Canada, Greenland, Argentina, Africa, South America and Asia and establish a platform for Chinese and foreign mining enterprises to promote mining cooperation projects. 1.3 Mineral prospecting and exploitation project promotion and negotiation as well as contract signing on international cooperation projects The congress will concentrate on carrying out mineral prospecting and exploitation project promotion and negotiation as well as contract signing on international cooperation projects in order to achieve substantial effects in facilitating mining cooperation forms. Firstly, it concentrates on promoting and negotiating a group of cooperation projects. We have widely collected promotion information on related mining cooperation projects home and abroad and plan to promote nearly 400 projects at this session of congress with the mineral types involving gold, copper, iron, lead zinc, manganese, coal, nickel, molybdenum and tin, etc. and the regions covering Australia, Namibia, Canada, Philippines, Indonesia, Zambia, Burma, Botswana, Turkey, Georgia, Thailand, Peru, Mongolia and Brazil. Secondly, it concentrates on signing a group of cooperation projects on mineral prospecting and exploitation. During the congress, the project matching signing ceremony will be held on November 7 at 18:00-18:30 (before Awards Dinner) under the unified arrangement by the Organizing Committee of China Mining. Leaders of the Ministry of Land and Resources, Tianjin Municipal leaders, mining ministers of related countries and leaders of related Chinese and foreign departments will be invited to witness the project matching. 1.4 CHINA MINING exhibition CHINA MINING 2011 will coincide with the congress. The exhibition area will exceed 20,000 square meters, doubling that of the previous session. There have been over 300 Chinese and foreign exhibitors signing up for the exhibition so far. Apart from standard booths, there are also different kinds of special exhibition zones, including: country pavilions which present comprehensive exhibition organized by governments and enterprises from major mining countries like Canada, Australia and South Africa; special assembly exhibition zone composed of 15-20 standard booths which are independently designed and arranged by respective exhibitors for domestic (and a few international) large mining companies and related institutions to display themselves and have business talks; mechanical equipment exhibition zone, which intensively displays medium and small-sized advanced geological prospecting equipments at home and abroad; and project matching exhibition zone. 2. Main features of the congress 2.1 High attention received from international mining circles Ministers in charge or high-ranking officials from more than 20 countries, senior management personnel from large mining companies and senior representatives from international financial institutions have confirmed their attendance. Through theme forum, foreign mining ministerial forum and enterprise development summit forum as well as more than 20 special meetings and sub-forums on policy interpretation on mining right management, analysis on global mineral prospecting situation, mining industry and capital market and new mining technologies and equipments, etc., the congress will discuss and analyze major issues on global mining development on different occasions in a diversified manner. 2.2 High attention paid by the Chinese government to the congress In addition to the eight domestic co-organizers of last session, the Ministry of Finance will also become a co-organizer of the congress this year. Leaders of the National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Science and Technology, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Environmental Protection, the Ministry of Commerce, China Development Bank, Import-Export Bank of China and Bank of China will be present at the opening ceremony of the congress and give keynote speeches to introduce policies related to China’s mining development with emphasis on certain points by field and provide relevant important information for domestic and foreign investors. 2.3 Presentation of CHINA MINING International Cooperation Awards continued to promote international mining cooperation This session of CHINA MINING will continue to organize CHINA MINING International Cooperation Awards selection and presentation to further encourage and facilitate opening-up and cooperation of the mining industry, establish examples of external cooperation for Chinese mining and demonstrate good images of the opening-up of Chinese mining. Lastly, we appreciate the attention from all guests and media friends paid to the congress. The congress will release further information on related website in due course. Please keep paying attention to CHINA MINING2011 which will be held in Tianjin soon.
Thank you!

Vice Inspector of General Office of Ministry of Land and Resources, Xia Jun, is presiding over the news briefing. (Photo by Cao Jidong)

Deputy Director-General of Tianjin Municipal Bureau of Land & Resources and Housing Administration and Deputy Director of the Organizing Committee Office， Lu Hong， is providing additional information on preparations for CHINA MINING 2011. (Photo by Cao Jidong)

According to the news briefing, CHINA MINING 2011 will be held in Tianjin during November 6-8. This year’s congress is themed with “Strengthen International Cooperation, Accelerate Geological Exploration & Mine Development”. Important activities such as opening ceremony, theme forum, foreign mining ministerial forum, enterprise development summit forum, CHINA MINING International Cooperation Awards presentation, exhibition and enterprise business talks will be carried out during the congress. To extensively publicize and introduce the work carried out by the Chinese government in improving mining investment environment among international mining circles in order to facilitate external cooperation of Chinese mining enterprises, the Ministry of Land and Resources started to hold CHINA MINING International Workshop in 1999, renamed the event CHINA MINING in 2005 and has successfully held it for 11 sessions so far. As an external cooperation brand of China’s mining industry, CHINA MINING has become an important platform for Chinese and foreign mining enterprises and related institutions to acquire related information and seek cooperation opportunities. As the largest mining event in Asia and one of the world’s top four mining events, it has increasingly received high attention from the international mining circles. Approved by the State Council, jointly sponsored by the Ministry of Land and Resources and Tianjin Municipal People’s Government and co-organized by the National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Science and Technology, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Environment Protection, the Ministry of Commerce, China Development Bank, Export-Import Bank of China and Bank of China, CHINA MINING2011 is scheduled to be held in Tianjin during November 6-8, 2011. Themed with “Enhancing international cooperation to accelerate prospecting breakthrough”, the congress will extensively publicize China’s reform and opening-up policies on the mining industry and discuss special topics such as sustainable development of global mining industry, situation and analysis on global mineral prospecting, mining industry and capital market, mine environment and mine park, comprehensive mineral utilization, etc. The international mining circles paid high attention and gave active response to this session of congress. Up to October 19, there have been over 2,000 delegates apart from domestic ones from nearly 40 countries and regions signing up for the congress and the exhibition. Mining ministers and vice ministers or directors-general of geological bureaus from more than 20 countries (regions) such as Australia, Canada, South Africa, Peru, Philippines, Sudan, Eritrea, Kyrgyzstan, Burundi, Zimbabwe, Tanzania, Ethiopia, Zambia, Tadzhikistan, Greenland, Argentina, India, Laos, Pakistan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Cambodia and Mongolia will lead respective delegations to attend the congress. Nearly 200 international organizations, large mining enterprises and financial institutions such as OECD, BHP Billiton, Anglo American, Standard Bank, Aluminum Corporation of China, China Minmetals Corporation, China National Gold Group Corporation, BOC International, China Railway Resources Group Co., LTD, ZRHL Group, Datong Coal Mine Group, Shandong Gold Mining, Shandong Zhaojin Group and Zijin Mining Group will attend the congress. The congress will hold three main forums including theme forum, foreign mining ministerial forum and enterprise development summit forum as well as more than 20 workshops covering topics like sustainable development of global mining industry, situation and analysis on global mineral prospecting, mining industry and capital market, mine environment and mine park and comprehensive mineral utilization. Based on the previous sessions, the congress will concentrate on organizing contract signing, negotiation and exchange on mining cooperation projects at home and abroad, releasing information on, promoting, negotiating and signing contracts on a group of cooperation projects to further promote implementation of substantial project cooperation by Chinese and foreign mining enterprises. The congress will also increase efforts in introducing and absorbing new technologies and new methods on deep prospecting and precision detection to improve China’s geological mineral technological innovation capability. CHINA MINING 2011 will coincide with the congress. The exhibition area will greatly increase by exceeding 20,000 square meters, doubling that of the previous session. Apart from standard booths, there are also different kinds of special exhibition zones, including country pavilions organized by governments and enterprises from major mining countries like Canada and Australia for comprehensive exhibition, special assembly exhibition zone, mineral equipment exhibition zone and project matching exhibition zone. This session of CHINA MINING will continue to organize CHINA MINING International Cooperation Awards selection and presentation to further encourage and facilitate opening-up and cooperation of the mining industry.

Wang Min met with Minister of Mines, Energy and Water
Conservancy Development of Zambia
Source: www.mlr.gov.cn Citation: www.gtzyb.com Date: Feb. 5, 2012

On the morning of February 1, Zambia time, Mr. Wang Min, Deputy Minister of the Ministry of Land and Resources of China and Director of China Geological Survey, met with Mr. Yamfwa Mukanga , Minister of Mines, Energy and Water Conservancy Development, Zambia. The two parties exchanged opinions in the fields of geology and mining industry.

Wang Min, representing the Ministry of Land and Resources expressed his thanks for being invited to Zambia. He said, Zambia is the first country in South African that established diplomatic relation with new China, and the two countries have enjoyed profound traditional friendship especially the deep-going cooperation in the field of geology and mining for 49 years since the establishment of diplomatic ties. In recent years, the competent departments of mining industry of the two countries have established close relationship, and Chinese mining investment projects in Zambia developed smoothly. Zambia has sent delegations to attend CHINA MINING for three years from 2009 to 2011. In February, 2010, a memorandum of understanding on geology and mining cooperation was signed in Beijing between the ministry of land and resources, PRC and the mining and mineral development ministry, Zambia. For the further cooperation, Wang Min suggested that both sides should maintain high-level exchanges, carry out the memorandum, further the geological survey and technical cooperation, and strengthen inter-ministerial communication to promote the enterprise cooperation, strengthen information sharing, and establish a geological database. Finally, on behalf of the ministry of land and resources, PRC, Wang Min invited穆坎加 and his delegation to attend CHINA MINING 2013 which will be held in November,2013.

Yamfwa Mukanga gave a warm welcome to Wang Min and delegation that he led and gladly accepted the invitation. He said that Chinese companies, which invested in Zambia`s mining development had actively performed their community responsibility and promoted local economic and social development. He hoped that Zambia would like to have more support and help from China in geological mapping, mining data monitoring, comprehensive utilization of mineral, the processing and auction of gem and jade, and exploration of oil and gas, etc.

Richard Musu Kwacha and Charles Zulu, Deputy Ministers of Mines, Energy and Water Conservancy Development, Zambia, Victor Mutombo, Executive Secretary of Ministry of Mines, Energy and Water Conservancy Development, Zambia and Zhou Yuxiao, Chinese Ambassadors to Zambia attended the meeting as well.(Bu Xun)  (translated by TLRHVC）

About CHINA MINING

Since first held in 1999, the scope and influence of CHINA MINING has grown rapidly year by year.  As a global mining summit forum and exhibition, CHINA MINING Congress and Expo has become one of the world’s top mining events, and one of the world’s largest mining exploration, development and trading platforms, covering all aspects of the whole mining industry chain, including geological survey, exploration and development, mining rights trading, mining investment and financing, smelting and processing, mining techniques and equipment, mining services, etc. playing an active promotion role in creating exchange opportunities and enhancing mutual cooperation between domestic and foreign mining enterprises.

CHINA MINING Congress and Expo 2013 will be held at Meijiang Convention and Exhibition Center in Tianjin on November 2-5, 2013. We invite you to join the event and to celebrate the 15^th anniversary of CHINA MINING with us.  For more information about CHINA MINING 2013, please visit: m.balanzskin.com