Editor's Note

Just as mineral resources are essential to mines, land is also an indispensable material resource for mining areas. However, unlike general industrial land, mining land has its own professionalism, specificity, and complexity. The development and utilization of mining require a good relationship with the ecological environment and a good relationship with the conservation and intensive use of land. The organization, reclamation, and utilization of mining land are not only important topics that cannot be avoided in mining development but also the premise and foundation for ecological restoration in mining areas. Cherish every inch of land and conserve every type of resource. In practice, the mining industry actively explores land-saving methods and operational models for mining land while understanding and utilizing policies effectively, developing and accumulating land-saving technologies and reclamation technologies, transforming once-abandoned mines into fertile fields and orchards, making them both attractive and meaningful, and becoming a beautiful footnote in the construction of ecological civilization in the new era of mining.

Yunnan Phosphate Group Co., Ltd. began its land reclamation and environmental protection work in the 1980s, always adhering to the principle of "developing while protecting and protecting while developing." Especially since 2004, it has increased efforts, investment, and innovative management, forming a long-term mechanism for vegetation reclamation, reflecting a high sense of social responsibility and winning a good social reputation.

China Aluminum Guangxi Branch pays great attention to the issue of land reclamation in mining areas. Through "borrowing land for mining," the land is reclaimed and returned to farmers for cultivation after mining, which not only solves the land problem for farmers but also reduces the company's mining costs, effectively promoting land reclamation and ecological environment reconstruction.

China Coal Pingshuo Company has always insisted on planning, implementing, and developing the economy and environmental protection simultaneously, using a combination of trees, shrubs, and grasses to restore ecology, with a vegetation coverage rate of over 90% in the spoil ground, pioneering the reclamation and ecological governance of mining land in China.

Shandong Sishui County introduced Huifeng Agricultural Development Company to organize land in abandoned mining areas, adhering to the principles of "land restoration, solid waste utilization, new building materials, sightseeing agriculture, and ecological tourism" in the land restoration area, taking land reclamation as the leading role and ecological reshaping as the main line, transforming barren mining pits into flat and fertile land.

Since the spring of 2016, the abandoned mine Posheng Mountain in Donghong Village, Daixi Town, Wuxing District, Huzhou City, Zhejiang Province, has been transformed into a thousand-acre tea mountain.

Sanhe City, Hebei Province, introduced social capital to achieve mutual promotion of mining environment governance, land reclamation, and the cultivation of new economic growth points, turning former mining sites into ecological demonstration areas with agriculture, forestry, scenery, and charm.

Sea buckthorn trees planted on the reclaimed land of Dongsheng Mine in Ordos, Inner Mongolia.

Zhejiang Province's Zhuji City invested funds to reclaim mines, transforming the previously scarred mines into fertile fields and orchards.

Website Editor: Gong Li