“Racing in abandoned mines is so thrilling!” many participants exclaimed. On June 17, 2019, the 2019 Liaoning Fuxin China Auto Off-Road Championship (COC) successfully concluded at the Fuxin Century Race City, attracting tens of thousands of spectators.
Once, the first shovel of coal in the Fuxin mining area was dug here. Now, the coal transportation road of that year has been transformed into a racetrack, hosting thrilling events time and again. Beijing Zhongse Geological Survey Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as 'Zhongse Geological Survey') is one of the organizers of the event.
The flower of dreams blooms in the courage to persevere. Under the leadership of Wang Jingbin, chief scientist of the national 973 project, winner of the Li Siguang Geological Science Award, and chairman of Beijing Zhongse Geological Survey Co., Ltd., and Ma Xiaoji, an expert from the National Ministry of Science and Technology 863 Expert Database and president of Beijing Zhongse Geological Survey Co., Ltd., the team at Zhongse Geological Survey dares to innovate and strives to explore, opening up a new realm in the field of ecological restoration and development governance of mines.
Effect diagram of mine restoration in Baisha Village, Wu'an, Hebei
1. New technologies lay a solid foundation for high-quality development
As a high-tech enterprise, Zhongse Geological Survey has been deeply engaged in geology, geophysical exploration, geochemical exploration, surveying and mapping, and remote sensing for decades, creating a team of outstanding experts with a strong sense of innovation and reform. The company has two secondary subsidiaries: Beijing Zhongse Surveying and Mapping Institute Co., Ltd. and Beijing Zhongse Resource and Environmental Engineering Co., Ltd., and has three tertiary companies and 16 branches in Hebei, Henan, Xinjiang, Jilin, Inner Mongolia, Yunnan, Guangdong, Guizhou, Fujian, Sichuan, Chongqing, Changsha, Jiangxi, etc. Its business scope covers mine ecological environment restoration, geological disaster governance, smart cities, geographic information system services, and independent intellectual property platforms. The company strives to build an industrial layout of 'one chain, two supports, three characteristics, and four sectors', achieving an organic combination of ecological, economic, and social benefits.
Technological innovation is the driving force behind enterprise development, and the rapid development of Zhongse Geological Survey benefits from its technological advantages. According to Ma Xiaoji, in the past decade, Zhongse Geological Survey has won more than 220 provincial (ministerial) level awards, including 21 first prizes for geographic information technology progress, 23 second prizes for technological progress, 28 third prizes for technological progress, 2 platinum awards for excellent surveying and mapping results, 33 first prizes for excellent surveying and mapping results, 50 second prizes for excellent surveying and mapping results, and 59 third prizes for excellent surveying and mapping results. It has outstanding technological, informational, and resource advantages in related business fields at home and abroad and has been rated as one of the top 100 enterprises in China's geographic information industry for five consecutive sessions.
Research capability is an important guarantee for technological innovation. Zhongse Geological Survey has strong research capabilities, established an academician workstation, obtained 12 patents and over 100 software copyrights; formed strategic cooperation with research institutions, and built a cooperation base for production, learning, and research with universities, enabling the company to possess cutting-edge talents, leading technologies, and rich research experience. At the same time, they have developed platforms with completely independent intellectual property rights, such as the Zhongse 3D Geographic Information Platform CNearth, digital geographic space framework, integrated above-ground and underground comprehensive pipeline network, and the third national land survey system, providing technical support for building a beautiful ecology and a smart livelihood industrial chain.
Zhongse 3D Geographic Information Platform—CNearth
Zhongse Geological Relics Comprehensive Management System
Integrated three-dimensional comprehensive management system for urban above-ground and underground
2. Gather all efforts to build a smart livelihood industrial chain
For a long time, Zhongse Geological Survey has always prioritized promoting high-quality development in the industry and creating a better livelihood experience, seizing opportunities from policies and markets, and building a smart livelihood industrial chain through reform and innovation.
According to Zhou Yi, general manager of Beijing Zhongse Surveying and Mapping Institute Co., Ltd., in recent years, Zhongse Geological Survey has actively transformed towards a comprehensive smart livelihood model, committed to building digital cities and smart cities, and has found new economic growth points through reform and innovation, achieving rapid development.
Zhongse Geological Survey expands its surveying and mapping service field, develops new surveying and mapping products, constructs digital cities, and serves real life. They have provided basic version platforms, government version platforms, public version platforms, and 'Tian Map' geographic information public platforms for more than 20 cities, promoting urban information construction, facilitating scientific urban management, and significantly improving urban management efficiency and service levels.
According to Zhou Yi, the smart application results of Zhongse Geological Survey are widely used in land resources, public security, planning, safety supervision, urban management, and other fields, and they have developed a GIS platform with completely independent intellectual property rights, achieving massive data management and comprehensive smart city construction.
At the same time, Zhongse Geological Survey is also the only authorized unit for 'Tian Map·Hebei'. The company uses the internet to deeply mine big data, achieving market-oriented, open, and integrated 'Tian Map·Hebei' series mobile terminal application services, greatly improving urban management levels and the convenience of life for local residents.
Fuxin Century Race City
3. Create a 'green mine expert' service concept
Implementing major projects for the protection and restoration of important national ecosystems is a significant decision made by the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, and mine ecological restoration is a very important part of it. Zhongse Geological Survey's subsidiary, Zhongse Environment, adheres to the concept of 'government-led, policy-supported, social participation, development-oriented governance, and market-oriented operation', with the mission of 'making the earth home safer and more beautiful', actively creating a comprehensive service for geological disaster governance and comprehensive service for the entire lifecycle of mines, which has been widely recognized.
In the process of mine ecological restoration, Zhongse Environment proposes to use capital as a link and technology as support, combining governance with planning, and actively exploring new models of mine ecological restoration. According to Bian Xiao, executive deputy general manager of Beijing Zhongse Resource and Environmental Engineering Co., Ltd., Zhongse Environment has completed multiple mine environmental development governance projects, pioneering the service concept of 'green mine expert', combining ecological, economic, and social benefits while governing the mine environment, achieving good results.
In terms of mine environment, it insists on leading with geological disaster governance and ecological restoration, exploring the value of re-developing and re-using abandoned mine pits. In terms of landscape creation, it reshapes urban ecosystems and improves urban ecological landscape environments. In terms of industrial embedding, it insists on the coordinated development of mine governance with agriculture, cultural tourism, real estate development, etc., actively creating new growth points for urban development and revitalizing the urban economy together. In terms of urban enhancement, it actively creates a new pattern of urban development, expands construction land, drives employment, creates new popular gathering places, and generates new space for urban development. In terms of resource utilization, it resourcefully utilizes waste materials such as residual ore and waste rock generated from mining and selection, improving resource, economic, and ecological effects.
Zhongse Environment efficiently completes various projects through complementary businesses, shared technologies, leveraging capital, and collaborating with the government.
In the Jizhou mining environmental governance project, China Nonferrous Metal Industry's Environmental Protection Co., Ltd. breaks traditional governance ideas, fully integrating mining environmental governance with urban landscape effects, land use, and urban functional zoning, beautifying the mining ecological environment, creating urban attractions, guiding consumption trends, increasing added value, and achieving rapid land appreciation, serving as a promotional demonstration across the country. The project covers a total area of 10.2 square kilometers, with a total investment of 2 billion yuan, divided into three phases. The first phase is the environmental governance of the Xishi Mine. The original mining area has numerous air defense caves, and the staff fully integrates the planning and design ideas with the original terrain and landforms. After thoroughly managing the air defense caves, the abandoned mine is transformed into a wine-themed town and a mining pit hotel, creating a high-end cultural tourism industry. The second phase involves the environmental governance of the southern and northern areas of Daxingyu. This area has a large surface area of mountain scars, steep slopes, complex terrain conditions, and serious geological safety hazards, and the mining area is located in the city center. Based on its advantageous geographical location, the staff designs the northern mining area of Daxingyu as an urban green park, providing residents with leisure and entertainment spaces; utilizing the original mining pit of the southern mining area, it is transformed into a construction waste backfill site. The third phase includes the environmental governance of the Laohuding and Donghouziyu mining areas. Mining governance can not only reclaim and ecologically rebuild the land that has been damaged and abandoned due to mining, restoring its production function, but also organize some developable land, driving the development of surrounding plots while realizing its own land value, alleviating urban land pressure to a certain extent. After the governance of the Laohuding mining area is completed, the local government sells the land at a price of 5 million yuan per mu, which is 50 times the value before governance. The Donghouziyu project draws on advanced urbanization experiences from the UK, with ecological restoration of the mine as the core, planning to build an 'Eden indoor theme park' themed around characteristic plants and water systems, and developing a characteristic town in conjunction with cultural tourism resources.
Baisha Village in Wu'an, Hebei, relies on building materials mining as its pillar industry, with a mining area destruction of approximately 1.55 square kilometers, and mining roads winding through the mountains, with the original hydrological system also damaged. Although Baisha Village has significant transportation advantages, good natural resources, and unique cultural resources, it lacks supporting services for high-end tourism products. China Nonferrous Metal Industry's Environmental Protection Co., Ltd. helps Baisha Village, which relies on resource-based collective economy, achieve economic transformation through a combination of planning, design, and governance, becoming the 'New Baisha' in the post-mining era with coordinated planning of mountains, rocks, forests, and fields.
The Fuxin Century Racing City in Liaoning is a perfect combination of technology and creativity, bringing new development vitality to coal-depleted cities. The towering gangue hills and low-lying mining pits in the XinQiu District of Fuxin form a unique terrain and landform, providing a natural advantage to become a venue for automotive events. To tap into the potential of abandoned mines, utilize idle land to drive the local economy, and develop creative tourism, China Nonferrous Metal Industry's Environmental Protection Co., Ltd. cooperated with Zhongke Shenglian to jointly carry out the Fuxin Century Racing City project. In March 2019, the consortium won the bid for the EPC general contracting project of the ecological environment governance project in the core area of the Racing Town in XinQiu District, Fuxin City, with a total bid amount of 245 million yuan. Currently, the Fuxin Century Racing City project, which uses the racing track as a carrier and automotive events as the core, operates under the model of 'designing, governing, constructing, and operating simultaneously,' relying on advanced operational management capabilities and solid technical support, has successfully held 7 racing events, receiving over 200,000 spectators, writing a brilliant chapter for the transformation of resource-depleted cities.
According to Bian Xiao, in the face of various issues in China's mining ecological restoration, China Nonferrous Metal Industry's Environmental Protection Co., Ltd. has explored a development path suitable for rapidly advancing projects: first, adhere to business collaboration, using the EPC project model, multiple units collaborate on business, contributing funds according to the proportion of project tasks undertaken, and jointly complete the project; second, adhere to technological collaboration, signing strategic alliances with multiple units and universities to cooperate in technology transfer, technological innovation, and patent technology application; third, adhere to government cooperation, jointly establishing project companies with government investment management platforms to develop cooperatively around the project; fourth, adhere to capital collaboration, cooperating with fund companies and financial resources to participate in environmental governance projects, effectively ensuring financing services.
Strengthening ecological civilization construction, accelerating ecological restoration, allowing natural ecological beauty to remain in the world, and returning tranquility, harmony, and beauty to nature is a shared responsibility of individuals, enterprises, and society. We believe that in the future, China Nonferrous Geological Survey and Mapping will deliver even more impressive results in the field of ecological restoration.□
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