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In the first 20 years of the 21st century,
China will build a well-off society in an all-round way, so the total
demand for mineral resources will continue to increase. China will strengthen
its survey, prospecting, exploitation, planning, management, protection
and rational utilization of mineral resources, implement the strategy
of sustainable development, take a new road to industrialization, and
strive to increase the ability of the mineral resources to guarantee its
socio-economic development. China will continue to increase the economic
returns, social benefits and environmental benefits of the mineral resources
to the full by implementing an effective policy concerning mineral resources
in accordance with the requirements of surveying and exploiting mineral
resources in an orderly way and with compensation, striking a balance
between supply and demand, optimizing composition, and seeking intensive
development and high efficiency.
China’s general targets for the protection and rational utilization
of its mineral resources in the early 21st century are:
— To increase the ability of the mineral resources to guarantee
the building of a well-off society in an all-round way. We shall raise
the effective input into mineral resources prospecting and exploitation,
increase the range and depth of prospecting and exploitation, strengthen
the protection of mineral resources, and increase their supply. We shall
open still wider to the outside world and take an active part in international
cooperation. We shall also establish a reserve system for strategic resources,
lay up necessary reserves of mineral resources vital to the national economy
and the people’s livelihood, and ensure the safety of the country’s
economy as well as the sustained and safe supply of mineral commodities.
— To promote the improvement of the ecological environment of the
mines. We shall reduce and control pollution and damage to the environment
of the mineral resources caused in the production links of mining, dressing
and smelting or refining and bring about a benign cycle in the exploitation
of mineral resources and protection of the ecological environment; improve
the laws and regulations for environmental protection in mining areas,
and exercise still stricter examination and supervision over the law enforcement
concerning the control of the ecological environment of the mines; and
increase publicity and education to raise the awareness of the mining
enterprises and the whole society regarding the importance of resources
environmental protection.
— To create a development environment for fair competition. In light
of the requirements for establishing a socialist market economic system
and the operation law governing mineral resources exploration and exploitation,
we shall further improve the laws and regulations concerning the management
of mineral resources; adjust and perfect the policy on mineral resources;
improve the investment environment; provide excellent information service;
and create an open, orderly, sound and unified market environment in which
all market subjects can compete on an equal footing.
To attain the above targets, China will continue to adhere to the following
principles:
— Persisting in the strategy of sustainable development. We shall
implement the measures for protecting resources and correctly handle the
relations between economic development and resources protection; exploit
resources in the course of protection and protect them in the course of
exploitation; strengthen mineral resources prospecting; exploit mineral
resources in a rational way and economize on their utilization; strive
to increase efficiency in the utilization of resources; and open a new
road to industrialization featuring high sci-tech content, good economic
returns, low resources consumption, less environmental pollution, and
full play to the advantages of human resources.
— Adhering to the orientation of reform toward establishing a market
economic system. Under the guidance of the state industrial policy and
plan, we shall give full play to the basic role of the market in the allocation
of mineral resources, and establish a mechanism for optimum resources
allocation combining government macro control with market operation. We
shall strengthen control over the total quantity of mineral resources
exploitation, foster and standardize the prospecting and mining rights
market, promote the diversification of mineral resources exploration,
exploitation and investment and the standardization of business operation,
and earnestly safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of the state
owners and the holders of exploration and mining rights.
— Persisting in balanced development between regional mineral resources
prospecting and exploitation and environmental protection. We shall work
out unified plans and correctly handle the relations between eastern and
western regions, between well-developed and less-developed regions, between
prospecting and exploitation, between state-owned mining enterprises and
non-state-owned mining enterprises, and between scale exploitation and
excavation by small mines. We shall further implement the strategy of
large-scale development of the western regions, accelerate exploration
and exploitation of mineral resources in the western regions, especially
the dominant minerals and minerals in short supply at home, support mining
towns and old mines in their search for substitute resources, and promote
the balanced development of regional economies and the healthy development
of mineral resources prospecting and exploitation. We shall persist in
combining mineral resources exploitation with attention to the interests
of the regions inhabited by ethnic minorities, and strengthen the protection,
restoration and control of the mining environment on the principle of
putting prevention first and combining prevention with control.
— Persisting in widened opening-up and cooperation with other countries.
We shall improve the investment environment, encourage and attract foreign
investors to prospect for and exploit mineral resources in China. We shall
promote international cooperation in mineral resources, and make such
cooperation mutually complementary and beneficial in accordance with the
rules of the WTO and international convention.
— Persisting in making sci-tech progress and innovations. We shall
implement the strategy of rejuvenating the nation by reliance on science
and technology; strengthen efforts in tackling key technological problems
and popularizing and applying technological achievements in the investigation
and assessment of mineral resources and their prospecting and exploitation
and multipurpose use and in the prevention and control of environmental
pollution in mining areas; strengthen the R & D of high and new technologies
involved in the development of new energy sources, new material technologies
and marine mineral resources; and improve basic research on new theories,
new methods and new technologies. We shall improve the quality of the
workers; train a contingent of sci-tech personnel with mastery of advanced
scientific theories and the ability to make innovations in mineral resources
prospecting and exploitation; and promote the transformation of the prospecting
and exploitation from a traditional industry to a modern industry, from
a labor-intensive industry to a technology-intensive industry, and from
extensive management to intensive management.
— Persisting in managing mineral resources strictly according to
law. We shall improve the legal system, endeavor to promote administration
according to law, and exercise stricter supervision and control over mineral
resources prospecting and exploitation. We shall rectify and standardize
the rules for mineral resources management, and strive to advance mineral
resources protection and rational utilization along legal, standardized
and scientific lines.
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