Wang Xiangsheng: Going to Coal is a false proposition

Under the background of energy transformation, coal-based energy utilization is facing more and more challenges. At the same time, with the deepening reform of coal supply side, coal itself is undergoing profound transformation. This also includes the benchmark of China's reform and opening up, and China Coal Pingshuo Group Co., Ltd., a 100 million-ton coal enterprise with nearly 40 years of history. Since 2016, affected by the structural reform of coal supply side and the adjustment of industrial structure and base layout of China Coal Energy Group Co., Ltd., as a wholly-owned subsidiary of China Coal Group and the core enterprise of coal production, China Coal Pingshuo Group Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Pingshuo Group Company") has actively reduced its inefficient and ineffective production capacity, and coal output has accounted for the highest total output of the Group. The annual output of raw coal dropped from 113 million tons at its peak in 2012 to 70 million tons at present. In this process, the business of electric power, chemical industry and ecological sector has grown up gradually in the transformation and development of Pingshuo Group. What is the status of coal in the energy structure, what is the situation of Pingshuo Group Company, a 100-million-ton coal enterprise, in the main coal industry after the reform of coal supply side, and to what extent are the power, chemical and ecological sectors laid out? With these problems, Journalist magazine went to Shuozhou, Shanxi Province in mid-April to interview Wang Xiangsheng, Party Secretary and Executive Director of Pingshuo Group Company.

Coal removal is a false proposition

Reporter: With the continuous progress of global and China's energy transformation, the new energy industry has developed rapidly, and the voice of "coal removal" has risen and fallen one after another. What do you think the status of coal in energy should be?

Wang Xiangsheng: Coal removal is a pseudo-proposition, especially under the condition of poor oil and gas resources in China. Although the proportion of coal in primary energy has decreased in recent years, the total amount of coal consumption has not decreased, and the total amount of coal consumption still has a certain increase. At present, the proportion of thermal power installed is still more than 50%. Although new energy sources such as photovoltaic and wind power are developing rapidly, thermal power is still the basis to ensure the stability of power grid. In addition, in the aspect of environmental protection, coal can be used most cleanly, and the emission of thermal power units can reach the level of gas generating units. With the improvement of our environmental protection equipment technology, the emission of thermal power has reached zero emission.

Reporter: Pingshuo Group Company is one of the few hundred million-ton coal enterprises in China. In 2018, what is the coal production and operation situation of the company? What achievements have been made?

Wang Xiangsheng: In 2018, Pingshuo Group Company realized sales revenue of 24.466 billion yuan, an increase of 3.538 billion yuan over the same period of last year; realized industrial output value of 21.826 billion yuan, an increase of 0.59 billion yuan over the same period of last year; realized total profit of 1.48 billion yuan, an increase of 400 million yuan over the same period of last year. By the end of 2018, the total assets of the company amounted to 71.7 billion yuan, with a cumulative production of 1.476 billion tons of raw coal, 1.148 billion tons of export commodity coal and 72.279 billion yuan of tax payment. In recent years, the company has implemented the national supply-side structural reform policy, scientifically dealt with the relationship between "de-productivity" and "stable production" in accordance with the overall layout of China Coal Group and its own reality, eliminated inefficient and inefficient production capacity in time, actively reduced production, and stabilized the annual output of coal to 7-80 million tons.

Pingshuo Group Company aims at "guaranteeing foreign transportation, loading trucks and output", takes "optimizing production, improving quality, improving efficiency and reducing unit consumption" as its grasp, optimizes production system, strengthens transportation and marketing linkages, increases production, ensures stable supply, and other major production indicators such as raw coal output, commodity coal export volume, stripping volume and feed-in volume exceed the expected target, especially stripping volume for nearly five years. To the highest level. The three indicators of high quality coal quantity, comprehensive recovery rate and tonnage deficit rate have maintained the best level in the past three years.

Journalist: In 2016, the coal industry began to reform its supply side. What is the general situation of Pingshuo Group Company in the supply side reform? What difficulties have been overcome during this period?

Wang Xiangsheng: Since 2016, Pingshuo Group Company has completed the treatment of stiffness and difficulty in three mines of Jingdong Coal Mine, Dongrisheng Coal Mine and Mine No. 2 Mine, and has withdrawn from production capacity of 10.9 million tons per year. In addition, Antaibao Mine and Anjialing Mine have capacity of 30 million tons per year. Considering resource reserve and stable and sustainable development of enterprises, the company has taken the initiative to reduce production capacity by 10 million tons per year. As a result, the cumulative capacity is 30.9 million tons per year. In the work of capacity removal, it is the most difficult problem to arrange diversion workers. In terms of personnel placement, the company has established a multi-channel placement idea of "enriching the front line, replacing outsourcing, post-transfer training, internal retirement, supplemented by the agreement to terminate labor relations". Specific measures include allocating the first-line teams of fully mechanized mining, fully mechanized excavation, mechanical and electrical, operation and ventilation to the rest of the company, increasing self-employed workload and reducing the number of foreign employees; and distributing the personnel of functional departments of production technology, equipment and Geodesy to other production auxiliary units and business centers of the company in accordance with their professional characteristics and personal intentions. 

In view of the obvious surplus of well equipment and washing system in the process of capacity removal, the company, on the one hand, studies and formulates the overall work plan for disposal and inventory of idle assets, adjusts the materials for well lifting as far as possible for the use of internal units such as Xiaohuigou Coal Industry and Beiling Coal Industry, and adopts various ways such as leasing, auction and cooperation for the materials that are really unusable within the company.