In response to the issue of the Juhugeng mining area of Muli Coalfield, Qinghai, reported on August 4, Qinghai Province has established an investigation team led by Li Jiexiang, member of the Standing Committee of the Provincial Party Committee and Executive Vice Governor, to rush to the mining area for on-site investigation. The investigation team said that once illegal and irregular behavior is found, it will be strictly investigated and dealt with.
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Qinghai's "invisible richest man" is suspected of illegal profits exceeding 10 billion yuan. The central inspection still did not stop
The issue of ecological and environmental protection of Qilian Mountains was reported by the central government three years ago. The unprecedented accountability storm has started the largest ecological defense battle in the history of Qilian Mountains.
The Economic Reference News reporter has been tracking and investigating for more than two years and found that under the high pressure of reporting and holding the accountability, the ecological protection of Qilian Mountains has achieved overall results, but the illegal mining of the Muli coalfield Juhugeng Mining Area in Qinghai Province in the hinterland of the southern foothills has not been eradicated. Large-scale and destructive open-pit illegal mining of coal mines is adding new huge trauma to this original alpine grassland wetland. The local ecology of the upper reaches of the Yellow River, the water conservation areas of Qinghai Lake, and the local ecology of Qilian Mountains is facing damage.
reporters have investigated and confirmed that the one who caused the ecological disaster in this area was a private enterprise called Qinghai Xingqing Industry and Trade Engineering Group Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Xingqing Company"). Xingqing Company Chairman Ma Shaowei claims to be the "invisible richest man" in Qinghai. For 14 years, he has occupied Juhugeng Coal Mine in Muli District, for more than 26 million tons of coal mining without a license, and made a profit of over 10 billion yuan.
The picture shows the mountain covered with scars after illegal mining of Yijingtian coal mine in Juhugeng Mine.
It is incredible that, in the context of two rounds of central environmental protection inspections and Qinghai Province's suspension of all mining behaviors in the Muli coalfield mining area and carrying out ecological environment improvement, the illegal mining of Xingqing Company in Muli Juhugeng Coal Mine has not been shaken. To this day, it is still conducting plundering mining in the name of restoration and governance, and new accounts have not been paid back.
"Open and Break" mining is shocking
Muli Mining Area Juhugeng Coalfield, at an altitude of 4,200 meters, is located in Tianjun County, Qinghai Province, close to the Qilian Mountain Nature Reserve. It is a resource gathering area in the Qilian Mountains Coal Belt and the only coking coal resource enrichment area in Qinghai. Muli Coal Field is composed of four mining areas, Juhugeng Coal Field is composed of seven well fields. Juhugengyi Well Field is the largest and most reserved well field, with coking coal reserves of nearly 400 million tons. The illegal mining activities of Xingqing Company are concentrated here.
The picture shows the illegal mining site of Yijingtian coal mine in Juhugeng Mining District.
In early July 2020, the reporter visited Well No. 5, Yijingtian Coal Mine on the southeast side of Juhugeng Mining District for the third time. In the coal mining area of Xingqing Company, several excavators and loaders are working intensively. Heavy-duty dump trucks, loaded with coal and slag, were hiking immediately after another, crawling along simple roads in the mining area; empty trucks were running wildly, raising dust in the sky. According to insiders, Xingqing Company currently has four coal mining teams, 120 machinery and nearly 300 people working in Well 5 of Yijingtian Coal Mine in Juhugeng Mine.
At the open-pit mining site of Xingqing Company, looking around, the giant sunken mining site formed by the "broken belly" type of mining winds for 5 kilometers from southeast to northwest, forming a gully of about 1 kilometer wide and 300 to 500 meters deep, like a huge wound cut on the plateau wetland. The peeled off underground frozen soil, rocks and coal gangue were excavated, and 40-50 meters high slag mountains were piled up near the mine pit, burying large areas of grassland. a
On April 26, 2019, the reporter entered Well No. 5, Yijingtian Coal Mine, Juhugeng Mine, through numerous inspections, and witnessed the mining scene of Xingqing Company almost the same as the above scenario.
On July 8, 2019, the reporter went to the Muli Juhugeng Mining Area again and saw at the entrance of the Xingqing Company's mining area that in more than two hours, 75 heavy semi-trailers loaded with coal roared out of the Xingqing Company's coal mining area. Each vehicle was loaded at least 50 tons and drove to the coal cargo yard of Muli Railway Station eight kilometers away.
After more than a year, Xingqing Company has rapidly expanded to the northwest direction at the mining surface of Well No. 5 of Yijingtian Coal Mine in Juhugeng Mining District.
In response to the issue of the Juhugeng mining area of Muli Coalfield, Qinghai, reported on August 4, Qinghai Province has established an investigation team led by Li Jiexiang, member of the Standing Committee of the Provincial Party Committee and Executive Vice Governor, to rush to the mining area for on-site investigation. The investigation team said that once illegal and irregular behavior is found, it will be strictly investigated and dealt with.
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Qinghai's "invisible richest man" is suspected of illegal profits exceeding 10 billion yuan. The central inspection still did not stop
The issue of ecological and environmental protection of Qilian Mountains was reported by the central government three years ago. The unprecedented accountability storm has started the largest ecological defense battle in the history of Qilian Mountains.
The Economic Reference News reporter has been tracking and investigating for more than two years and found that under the high pressure of reporting and holding the accountability, the ecological protection of Qilian Mountains has achieved overall results, but the illegal mining of the Muli coalfield Juhugeng Mining Area in Qinghai Province in the hinterland of the southern foothills has not been eradicated. Large-scale and destructive open-pit illegal mining of coal mines is adding new huge trauma to this original alpine grassland wetland. The local ecology of the upper reaches of the Yellow River, the water conservation areas of Qinghai Lake, and the local ecology of Qilian Mountains is facing damage.
reporters have investigated and confirmed that the one who caused the ecological disaster in this area was a private enterprise called Qinghai Xingqing Industry and Trade Engineering Group Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Xingqing Company"). Xingqing Company Chairman Ma Shaowei claims to be the "invisible richest man" in Qinghai. For 14 years, he has occupied Juhugeng Coal Mine in Muli District, for more than 26 million tons of coal mining without a license, and made a profit of over 10 billion yuan.
The picture shows the mountain covered with scars after illegal mining of Yijingtian coal mine in Juhugeng Mine.
It is incredible that, in the context of two rounds of central environmental protection inspections and Qinghai Province's suspension of all mining behaviors in the Muli coalfield mining area and carrying out ecological environment improvement, the illegal mining of Xingqing Company in Muli Juhugeng Coal Mine has not been shaken. To this day, it is still conducting plundering mining in the name of restoration and governance, and new accounts have not been paid back.
"Open and Break" mining is shocking
Muli Mining Area Juhugeng Coalfield, at an altitude of 4,200 meters, is located in Tianjun County, Qinghai Province, close to the Qilian Mountain Nature Reserve. It is a resource gathering area in the Qilian Mountains Coal Belt and the only coking coal resource enrichment area in Qinghai. Muli Coal Field is composed of four mining areas, Juhugeng Coal Field is composed of seven well fields. Juhugengyi Well Field is the largest and most reserved well field, with coking coal reserves of nearly 400 million tons. The illegal mining activities of Xingqing Company are concentrated here.
The picture shows the illegal mining site of Yijingtian coal mine in Juhugeng Mining District.
In early July 2020, the reporter visited Well No. 5, Yijingtian Coal Mine on the southeast side of Juhugeng Mining District for the third time. In the coal mining area of Xingqing Company, several excavators and loaders are working intensively. Heavy-duty dump trucks, loaded with coal and slag, were hiking immediately after another, crawling along simple roads in the mining area; empty trucks were running wildly, raising dust in the sky. According to insiders, Xingqing Company currently has four coal mining teams, 120 machinery and nearly 300 people working in Well 5 of Yijingtian Coal Mine in Juhugeng Mine.
At the open-pit mining site of Xingqing Company, looking around, the giant sunken mining site formed by the "broken belly" type of mining winds for 5 kilometers from southeast to northwest, forming a gully of about 1 kilometer wide and 300 to 500 meters deep, like a huge wound cut on the plateau wetland. The peeled off underground frozen soil, rocks and coal gangue were excavated, and 40-50 meters high slag mountains were piled up near the mine pit, burying large areas of grassland. a
On April 26, 2019, the reporter entered Well No. 5, Yijingtian Coal Mine, Juhugeng Mine, through numerous inspections, and witnessed the mining scene of Xingqing Company almost the same as the above scenario.
On July 8, 2019, the reporter went to the Muli Juhugeng Mining Area again and saw at the entrance of the Xingqing Company's mining area that in more than two hours, 75 heavy semi-trailers loaded with coal roared out of the Xingqing Company's coal mining area. Each vehicle was loaded at least 50 tons and drove to the coal cargo yard of Muli Railway Station eight kilometers away.
After more than a year, Xingqing Company has rapidly expanded to the northwest direction at the mining surface of Well No. 5 of Yijingtian Coal Mine in Juhugeng Mining District.The reporter was here to see that in the distance there were natural wetlands with green grass, sheep like pearls and snow-drawn peaks, and near there were a mess of coal piles, slag piles and shocking huge pits. In contrast, the green plateau meadow was suddenly torn apart, and the black coal and slag were like flesh and blood rolling out of the wound, which made people unbearable to look at it.
14 illegal mining profit exceeded 10 billion
According to the reporter's investigation, Xingqing Company intervened in Yijingtian Coal Mine in Juhugeng Mine in 2005 and began coal mining in the second half of 2006. Its illegal mining activities have lasted for 14 years.
From 2005 to the present, Xingqing Company has participated in the three-wheeled coal resource integration of Muli Coal Field, and has successively joined the loose Qinghai Muli Coal Industry Co., Ltd., Qinghai Tianmu Energy Group Co., Ltd. and Qinghai Mining Group Co., Ltd.由于“整而不合”，实质是兴青公司及其全资子公司青海兴青天峻能源集团有限公司（以下简称兴青天峻能源公司），单独自行在聚乎更一井田煤矿5号井实施煤炭开采。
reporter learned from the staff of the Qinghai Provincial Department of Natural Resources that up to now, Xingqing Company and Xingqing Tianjun Energy Company have not obtained a mining license for Juhugengyijingtian coal mine, and their mining behavior is illegal stolen mining.
Previously, Ma Shaowei said in an interview with reporters that he has been participating in the three-wheel coal resource integration in Muli Coal Field for a long time, and the integration has not been completed. Xingqing Company and Xingqing Tianjun Energy Company have both "stop production and cooperation in integration, and have no production."
According to the Qinghai Provincial Government Qingzheng (2011) Document No. 93, Xingqing Company paid 332.71 million yuan in taxes in 2011. According to the Qinghai Provincial Government Qingzheng (2012) Document No. 61 and the Qinghai Provincial Finance Work Conference in July 2013, Xingqing Company paid 412 million yuan in taxes in 2012. Based on this, local professionals calculated that from the end of 2006 to the end of June 2014, Xingqing Company illegally mined more than 20 million tons of high-quality coking coal at Yijingtian Coal Mine in Juhugeng Mining District, with revenue of more than 11 billion yuan.
The data obtained by the reporter from Xingqing Company also confirmed this calculation. The company's coal production data in Yijingtian, Juhugeng Mining District from 2007 to 2014 showed that the coal production in 2007 was 2.7088 million tons, the coal production in 2008 was 2.8877 million tons, the coal production in 2009 was 2.7551 million tons, the coal production in 2010 was 1.12 million tons, the coal production in 2011 was 3.5969 million tons, the coal production in 2012 was 4.4541 million tons, the coal production in 2013 was 1.855 million tons, the coal production in 2014 was 1.1347 million tons, and the annual coal production was 2.7088 million tons; from 2007 to 2014, the total coal mining was 20.5123 million tons, and the revenue was 11.019 billion yuan.
In addition, based on relevant data, professionals calculated that from 2015 to 2020, Xingqing Company mined more than 5 million tons of coal at Yijingtian Coal Mine in Juhugeng Mining District, with revenue of about 4 billion yuan.
The "Excavator Coal Digging Settlement Table" obtained by the reporter from Xingqing Company from November 26 to December 29, 2019 shows that during this period of about one month, the 10 excavators produced a total of 112,500 tons of coal; the "Dump Truck Number Statistics Table" from May 26 to June 25, 2020 showed that 41,000 tons of coal were produced during this period.
It can be seen that from 2006 to 2020, Xingqing Company illegally mined more than 25 million tons of coal from Muli Coal Field, making a profit of about 15 billion yuan.
Did not stop during the two rounds of central environmental protection inspections
Qinghai Muli coalfield illegally exploited and over-developed to destroy the ecological environment of grassland wetlands, which has attracted widespread attention. Since August 2014, in accordance with the deployment of the Qinghai Provincial Party Committee and the Provincial Government, coal mines in the Muli Mine Area have been completely suspended and rectified, and measures such as open-pit mining pit slope management and debris re-greening are taken to restore the ecology.
Ma Shaowei said in an interview with reporters that his "environmental protection work in the Juhugeng Mining Area Yijing Field has been recognized by the provincial government. As a model of ecological restoration and governance, his experience has been promoted in the Muli Mining Area."
. According to people familiar with the matter, on August 19, 2014, leaders of the Qinghai Provincial Party Committee and the Provincial Government led a team to the Juhugeng Mining Area of Muli Coal Field to work on site to guide and supervise the ecological restoration and environmental improvement work. As soon as the provincial leaders left, Xingqing Company repaired and sorted out the abandoned slag during the day and dug and coal at night. Since the second half of 2014, Xingqing Company has continued to implement large-scale illegal mining under the banner of ecological governance and restoration of mining areas. Local people say it is "repair and damage at the same time; minor repairs and great damage."Internal information of Xingqing Company obtained by the reporter from
shows that in 2014, when the news of rectification in Muli mining area was getting tighter, the company mined 1.1347 million tons of coal from Juhu Gengyijingtian Coal Mine.
In February 2016, after the "Research Report on the Comprehensive Ecological Environment Remediation of Qinghai Qilian Mountain Nature Reserve and Muli Mine Area" received great attention, the Qinghai Provincial Government issued the implementation plan for the comprehensive ecological environment improvement of Muli Coal Mine, and the rectification work entered the most severe period. Relevant information shows that in that year, Xingqing Company mined more than 1 million tons of coal from a field in Juhugeng Mining District.
From August 8 to September 8, 2017, the Seventh Central Environmental Protection Inspection Team conducted environmental protection inspections in Qinghai Province. A large number of pictures and video materials obtained by the reporter showed that during this period, the illegal mining of Xingqing Company in Yijingtian coal mine in Juhugeng Mine was still in full swing, and the mining suspension lasted only about one week.
From July 14 to August 14, 2019, the Sixth Central Environmental Protection Inspection Team conducted environmental protection inspections in Qinghai Province. According to insiders of Xingqing Company, the inspection team went to Tianjun County to conduct down-to-earth inspection. Xingqing Company's mining at Juhu Gengyijingtian coal mine was stopped for three days, and the inspection team resumed mining operations the day after leaving.
"Whenever the leaders come to inspect, inspect work and law enforcement inspections, Xingqing Company temporarily suspends production for one or two days, and transfers all coal mining machinery and equipment to the Zhashan plastic surgery site, and blocks the road leading to the coal mining area with slag." An insider insider of Xingqing Company told reporters that it is often welcomed for inspection during the day and organized mining at night, or that superior leaders and law enforcement personnel will resume production as soon as they leave or leave.
reporter learned that in order to cope with the supervision and inspection of Qinghai Provincial Law Enforcement Department, Xingqing Company will be suspended for four days starting from July 28, 2020. At around 14:00 p.m. on the 31st, the inspectors left, and Shixingqing Company notified the coal mining teams to resume night shift mining that day.
According to insiders of Xingqing Company, the company usually operates 24 hours a day, but every time leaders and law enforcement personnel come to the mining area, the company can get the news in advance, covering the ore body and the excavated coal with soil, or covering it with a green soil net, which looks like a green lawn; as soon as the inspector leaves, he will resume operations immediately.
就聚乎更矿区一井田煤矿非法开采问题，记者致电马少伟，马少伟表示：“煤矿一直在停产着呢。”
“破坏性”开采暗藏巨大生态“黑洞”
木里煤田储藏我国稀有煤种优质焦煤，该焦煤发热量通常在6600大卡以上，是不可或缺的炼焦用煤。 Qinghai people describe the coal here as good quality so that it can be ignited with a piece of paper.
The survey report of Yijingtian coal mine in Juhugeng Mine District shows that the average thickness of the next coal seam is 17.24 meters, and the average thickness of the lower two coal seam is 11.41 meters. According to mineral resources laws and regulations and coal industry technical specifications, if the thickness of open-pit coal mines exceeds 6 meters, the recovery rate must reach 90%.
Related coal mining experts told reporters that in order to maximize the benefits as soon as possible, Xingqing Company only eats "cabbage heart" in mining, and only uses extra-thick coal seams. Thin coal seams and coal seams with relatively complex geological structures are basically abandoned, with a recovery rate of less than 15%.
In this regard, industry insiders regretted it, "Picking one ton and throwing five tons". In this way, 80% of high-quality coal resources were thrown away in vain during the mining process of Xingqing Company's picky and picking. 155 million tons of coal were stored in the No. 5 well of Juhu Gengyijingtian. The deepest part of Xingqing Company's mining has reached 500 meters, and the mining range has exceeded half. More than 60 million tons of coal resources have been thrown away by Xingqing Company. It is equivalent to the annual coal production of 3 million tons of large mines with an annual output of 20 years, with a valuation of about 36 billion yuan.
Qinghai University An expert who participated in the research of the vegetation restoration project in the alpine mining area piloted by the Muli mining area told reporters that the Muli mining area is distributed with large areas of permafrost and alpine meadows and other wetland vegetation. The location of Juhugeng Mining Area is not only the source of the first-level tributary of the Yellow River, the Datong River, and also an important birthplace of the Qinghai Lake runoff river. Extensive and barbaric mining destroys not only the surrounding area of the mining area. The subsequent degradation of grasslands and surface desertification will lead to the deterioration of the ecological environment of the upper reaches of the Yellow River and the Qinghai Lake area.
Regarding Xingqing Company's "predatory and destructive" mining behavior, Zhang Hongfu, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and a researcher at the Institute of Geology and Geophysics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, repeatedly called for "heartbroken". He said: "The ecology of Muli coalfield is extremely sensitive and fragile. Large-scale disorderly prospecting and mining has caused the permafrost layer formed in thousands of years to be stripped away, and the water conservation function is weakened or disappeared, which will cause irreversible drought on a large scale of the surface."
Zhang Hongfu said that Xingqing Company has not had scientific construction organization design and standardized construction work for more than ten years, which not only destroys the original natural ecosystem, but also causes devastating damage to high-quality coking coal, combustible ice and other non-renewable resources. The relevant departments must conduct thorough investigations.
(Source: Economic Reference News)
(Source: People's Daily Client)
Internal information of Xingqing Company obtained by the reporter fromshows that in 2014, when the news of rectification in Muli mining area was getting tighter, the company mined 1.1347 million tons of coal from Juhu Gengyijingtian Coal Mine.
In February 2016, after the "Research Report on the Comprehensive Ecological Environment Remediation of Qinghai Qilian Mountain Nature Reserve and Muli Mine Area" received great attention, the Qinghai Provincial Government issued the implementation plan for the comprehensive ecological environment improvement of Muli Coal Mine, and the rectification work entered the most severe period. Relevant information shows that in that year, Xingqing Company mined more than 1 million tons of coal from a field in Juhugeng Mining District.
From August 8 to September 8, 2017, the Seventh Central Environmental Protection Inspection Team conducted environmental protection inspections in Qinghai Province. A large number of pictures and video materials obtained by the reporter showed that during this period, the illegal mining of Xingqing Company in Yijingtian coal mine in Juhugeng Mine was still in full swing, and the mining suspension lasted only about one week.
From July 14 to August 14, 2019, the Sixth Central Environmental Protection Inspection Team conducted environmental protection inspections in Qinghai Province. According to insiders of Xingqing Company, the inspection team went to Tianjun County to conduct down-to-earth inspection. Xingqing Company's mining at Juhu Gengyijingtian coal mine was stopped for three days, and the inspection team resumed mining operations the day after leaving.
"Whenever the leaders come to inspect, inspect work and law enforcement inspections, Xingqing Company temporarily suspends production for one or two days, and transfers all coal mining machinery and equipment to the Zhashan plastic surgery site, and blocks the road leading to the coal mining area with slag." An insider insider of Xingqing Company told reporters that it is often welcomed for inspection during the day and organized mining at night, or that superior leaders and law enforcement personnel will resume production as soon as they leave or leave.
reporter learned that in order to cope with the supervision and inspection of Qinghai Provincial Law Enforcement Department, Xingqing Company will be suspended for four days starting from July 28, 2020. At around 14:00 p.m. on the 31st, the inspectors left, and Shixingqing Company notified the coal mining teams to resume night shift mining that day.
According to insiders of Xingqing Company, the company usually operates 24 hours a day, but every time leaders and law enforcement personnel come to the mining area, the company can get the news in advance, covering the ore body and the excavated coal with soil, or covering it with a green soil net, which looks like a green lawn; as soon as the inspector leaves, he will resume operations immediately.
Regarding the illegal mining of Yijingtian coal mines in Juhugeng Mine Area, the reporter called Ma Shaowei. Ma Shaowei said: "The coal mine has been shutting down."
"destructive" mining hidden huge ecological "black hole"
Muli Coal Field stores high-quality coking coal in my country's rare coal types. The calorific value of this coking coal is usually above 6,600 calories, and is an indispensable coking coal. Qinghai people describe the coal here as good quality so that it can be ignited with a piece of paper.
The survey report of Yijingtian coal mine in Juhugeng Mine District shows that the average thickness of the next coal seam is 17.24 meters, and the average thickness of the lower two coal seam is 11.41 meters. According to mineral resources laws and regulations and coal industry technical specifications, if the thickness of open-pit coal mines exceeds 6 meters, the recovery rate must reach 90%.
Related coal mining experts told reporters that in order to maximize the benefits as soon as possible, Xingqing Company only eats "cabbage heart" in mining, and only uses extra-thick coal seams. Thin coal seams and coal seams with relatively complex geological structures are basically abandoned, with a recovery rate of less than 15%.
In this regard, industry insiders regretted it, "Picking one ton and throwing five tons". In this way, 80% of high-quality coal resources were thrown away in vain during the mining process of Xingqing Company's picky and picking. 155 million tons of coal were stored in the No. 5 well of Juhu Gengyijingtian. The deepest part of Xingqing Company's mining has reached 500 meters, and the mining range has exceeded half. More than 60 million tons of coal resources have been thrown away by Xingqing Company. It is equivalent to the annual coal production of 3 million tons of large mines with an annual output of 20 years, with a valuation of about 36 billion yuan.
Qinghai University An expert who participated in the research of the vegetation restoration project in the alpine mining area piloted by the Muli mining area told reporters that the Muli mining area is distributed with large areas of permafrost and alpine meadows and other wetland vegetation. The location of Juhugeng Mining Area is not only the source of the first-level tributary of the Yellow River, the Datong River, and also an important birthplace of the Qinghai Lake runoff river. Extensive and barbaric mining destroys not only the surrounding area of the mining area. The subsequent degradation of grasslands and surface desertification will lead to the deterioration of the ecological environment of the upper reaches of the Yellow River and the Qinghai Lake area.
Regarding Xingqing Company's "predatory and destructive" mining behavior, Zhang Hongfu, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and a researcher at the Institute of Geology and Geophysics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, repeatedly called for "heartbroken". He said: "The ecology of Muli coalfield is extremely sensitive and fragile. Large-scale disorderly prospecting and mining has caused the permafrost layer formed in thousands of years to be stripped away, and the water conservation function is weakened or disappeared, which will cause irreversible drought on a large scale of the surface."
Zhang Hongfu said that Xingqing Company has not had scientific construction organization design and standardized construction work for more than ten years, which not only destroys the original natural ecosystem, but also causes devastating damage to high-quality coking coal, combustible ice and other non-renewable resources. The relevant departments must conduct thorough investigations.
(Source: Economic Reference News)
(Source: People's Daily Client)
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