Xinjiang energy base has become a cheap coal market

“Development” became “excavation” and “black gold” sold sandstone prices starting from 6 years ago. Quasi-Eastern areas, which are sought after by trillions of funds, were “depicted” by local governments and settled enterprises as the main coal power and coal in Xinjiang. Chemical base. In January of this year, the reporter of the “Economic Information Daily” returned to Zhundong and saw only simple coal mining and coal sales. This piece of desert, rich in treasures, has not yet developed into a base for resource transformation, but it has first become cheap. The "market" for the sale of coal. Enterprises that have occupies a large amount of coal resources have been “exploited” to “excavate”, and coal that is called “black gold” has only sold more than 100 yuan per ton, which is far below the market price of more than 320 yuan in the surrounding areas, and even crushed coal has been sold. The price of sand and gravel, and the "original people" such as goose gazelles, foxes and wild donkeys, which have been seen from time to time, have long since disappeared. The promise of entering enterprises to "build and restore the environment" has become empty talk....

Dozens of well-known domestic coal companies’ large-scale billboards are standing in front of each other. There are huge mines, piles of earthy and coal dust, and a large excavator, bulldozer, and heavy truck moving across the mining area. Rumble machines The sound broke the silence of the ancient wasteland. On the top of a hillock piled up on earth and stone, excavators and bulldozers are pushing the earth that has just been pulled in. Coal that has been doped in gravel and earth, emits smoke, and in the cold wind, From time to time the flames emerged, and the Gobi Desert was dug up and devastated... This was the scene seen by the reporter of the Economic Information Daily before driving into the quasi-Eastern region where the coal enterprises in the hinterland of the Junggar Basin were dense.

There is a narrow strip of land in the eastern part of the Junggar Basin from Fukang City to the Kulak Autonomous County, namely the Zhundong region. It has a length of about 220 kilometers from east to west and a predicted reserve of coal resources of up to 390 billion tons. Currently, the cumulative proven reserves are 213.6 billion tons. Known as China's largest integrated coal field.

Just a few years ago, what the reporter saw here was a flat desert and desert plants. Although it is difficult to see tall trees on the surface, bare deserts are barely visible. Grasses, Haloxylon, reeds, camel thorns, etc. can be seen everywhere. Low hillsides are often stained with red, brown and blue by these sandy vegetation. And other charming colors.

Nowadays, thanks to the large-scale coal development, the roads that lead in all directions have divided the wasteland into large and small grids. The heavy vehicles that move in the night and day have raised dust from the sun. The goose gazelle, fox, and wilderness that have been seen from time to time can be seen. Donkeys and other "Aboriginal people" have long since disappeared.

Around the coal mines, desert vegetation has rarely been seen again. Occasionally, one or two of the shuttle woods are also covered with thick coal ash. Due to shallow burial, the coal mines that have been developed in the Zhundong area are almost all open pit coal mines. Because of the lack of surface water and the large amount of groundwater being pumped, this makes it more and more dry. There is almost no living environment for vegetation.

Compared to the increasingly sparse and difficult-growing surface vegetation, some open-pit coal mines are excavated in full swing. More than 1 kilometer long, several hundred meters wide at the bottom of the pit, a large excavator is scattered throughout, constantly stripping the soil or digging down to dig coal. The pits are like terraces. People stand on the edge of the pit and look down. Excavators more than three meters tall are like children's toys. The “Panshan Highway” that enters and exits the pit is curved, and a large truck shuttles between them and keeps the raw coal out of the pit.

Near the pit, on the road to and from the coal yard, coal ash and floating soil are nearly half a foot thick, and coal-carrying vehicles are driving on this simple road, like the water in a boat line and waves. In the absence of wind, over the mining area has been enveloped in a "black cloud." According to nearby residents, when there was wind, dust and coal dust fluttered with the wind and covered the sun for several kilometers.

According to the distribution of resources, the Zhundong area is divided into four major mining areas: Wucaiwan, Dajing, Xiheishan and Jiangjunmiao. At present, several leading domestic electric power companies and more than 40 key domestic coal industry enterprises have gathered here to engage in coal development. Some companies have only 6,7 square kilometers of exploration and development area, while others have dozens of square kilometers, and each company's resident location is between several kilometers to several tens of kilometers.

According to a cadre of the Environmental Impact Assessment Office of the Environmental Protection Department of the autonomous region, due to failure to produce according to the environmental regulations, almost every enterprise group that settled in the east was penalized by the environmental protection agencies of the state and the autonomous region. Some coal mines were punished more than once, and even Was once ordered to suspend production for rectification. However, fines were imposed on the penalty, and afterwards, the company still produced normal production, and the rectification almost had no effect.

Although the companies stationed in the park promised to “build and restore the environment”, the reporter did not see any measures to restore vegetation in these open-pit coal mines. Yang Weikang, a researcher at the Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography of the Chinese Academy of Sciences who has long paid attention to the ecological environment in the eastern part of the province, said that the surface damaged by extensive rough excavation has almost no possibility of plant seed implantation, and there is almost no surface in the area. In the case of water resources, the promise of companies to restore the environment before entering the company can only be empty talk.

However, this "excavation" at the expense of the fragile local ecosystem has not brought about the expected economic returns.

Although it is cold and freezing nowadays, it is the peak season for using coal, and the price of coal called “black gold” is only RMB 100 per ton, which is far below the market price of more than RMB 320 in surrounding areas. According to a local coal mine staff, the current price is still high. In the two years, during the summer, there are only 40 or 50 yuan per ton of coal, and the price of broken coal is even less than 10 yuan, which is less than that of sand. The price of stone.

On both sides of the 216 national highway that runs through the basin, reporters can see one giant coal pile from time to time with a sign of “sale of coal”. Local residents told reporters that most of these were coal dealers pulling from the Zhundong coal yard, where they were piled up and sold. He said: "Some of the coal driver's cars turned over on the side of the road and would rather go back and reload coal instead of going to the side of the road because the cost of manual loading is much higher than the price of coal."

Zhou Hai-hung, deputy director of the Xinjiang office of China International Engineering Consulting Company, said that few years ago, local government planning, design, and various projects promised by the giants of the energy industry, there were very few projects that were actually under construction. Due to the overcapacity of domestic coal chemical industry, the country has not approved the coal chemical projects in the Zhundong region of Xinjiang. Under such circumstances, enterprises that have already taken up large amounts of coal resources can only excavate coal resources first and give them a “declaration”. Due to the poor transport from the outside, Xinjiang itself could not digest so much coal. In the past two years, the market price of coal has become more and more obstinate.

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