There are more than 1,000 intelligent mining faces in coal mines across the country
Beijing, March 3 (Reporter Ding Yiting) The China Coal Industry Association released the "28 Coal Industry Development Annual Report" (hereinafter referred to as the "Report") on the 28th. The "Report" shows that the new momentum and new advantages of the development of the coal industry continue to increase. In the past 2022 years, the number of coal mines in the country has been reduced from 10,1 to less than 3,4400; the annual output of 33 million tons of coal mines has grown from 79 to 4, and the production capacity has increased from 5 million tons per year to 12.8 billion tons per year. By the end of 2022, 572 intelligent coal mines and 1019,31 intelligent mining faces had been built nationwide, and <> kinds of coal mine robots were applied in coal mine sites.
At the same time, China's coal production and development layout continued to be optimized, and the production center accelerated to Shanxi, Inner Mongolia, Shaanxi, Xinjiang and other places, and its raw coal output increased from 10.25 billion tons to 4.36 billion tons in the past 9 years, accounting for 64.3% to 80.9% of the national raw coal output.
The green and low-carbon transformation of the coal industry continues to be promoted. In the past 10 years, the national raw coal washing rate has increased from 56% to 69.7%, the comprehensive utilization rate of mine water has increased from 62% to 79.3%, and the land reclamation rate has increased from 42% to 57.8%. More than 10.5 billion kilowatts of coal-fired power units have achieved ultra-low emissions, accounting for about 94%; The comprehensive energy consumption of raw coal production of large coal enterprises decreased from 17.1 kg standard coal/ton to 9.7 kg standard coal/ton.
In 2022, the national raw coal output reached 45.6 billion tons, a record high. As of the end of December 2022, coal enterprises in China had stored 12 million tons of coal, a year-on-year increase of 6600.26%; The coal storage of the national centralized power plant was 6 million tons, an increase of 1% year-on-year, and the coal storage volume has remained at a record high of more than 75 million tons since June.
Guo Zhonghua, director of the Policy Research Department of the China Coal Industry Association, introduced that due to the superposition of multiple factors such as the sharp rise in international energy prices, after the second quarter of 2022, the spot price of the coal market showed a high volatility trend, and the price peak-valley difference reached about 900 yuan / ton during the year; After October, with the gradual improvement of China's thermal coal supply and demand situation and the rapid recovery of coal imports, the market price of thermal coal continued to decline, and the market price of thermal coal in the northern port at the end of the year fell by 10 yuan / ton from the high point of the year, and continued to return to a reasonable range.
What is the trend of the coal market in 2023? Guo Zhonghua analyzed that from the perspective of coal demand, the overall economic operation is expected to improve this year, which will drive domestic coal consumption to maintain growth; With the green transformation of development mode, the demand of major coal-consuming industries such as steel and building materials may weaken, and it is expected that coal demand will maintain a moderate increase in 2023. From the perspective of coal supply, it is expected that China will continue to release advanced coal production capacity, and coal production will maintain growth and decline in 2023. At the same time, the situation of coal imports has gradually improved, and imported coal will further play the role of regulating and supplementing the domestic coal market.
Comprehensive judgment, the overall expectation of the national coal market this year is stable and improving, the coal transportation guarantee capacity continues to improve, and it is expected that the supply and demand of the coal market will maintain a basic balance. "However, the current international energy supply and demand situation is still complicated, coupled with geopolitical conflicts, extreme weather, hydropower and new energy output, safety and environmental constraints and other uncertain factors, regional, periodic, and variety coal supply and demand contradictions still exist." Guo Zhonghua suggested that we should continue to promote the construction of coal production, supply, storage and marketing systems, explore the establishment of flexible production capacity and flexible production mechanisms for coal mines, effectively stabilize fluctuations in coal market demand, and focus on improving the safe and stable supply capacity of coal. (People's Daily)