Five bottlenecks to be solved in the development of coal industry

On December 4, the 2020 national coal trade fair was held in Rizhao, Shandong Province. Liang Jiakun, Secretary of the Party committee, vice president and Secretary General of China Coal Industry Association, attended the meeting and delivered a speech. According to Liang Jiakun, the coal industry is an important energy base industry in China. Since the founding of new China 70 years ago, under the correct leadership of the CPC Central Committee and the State Council, the coal industry has started on the basis of a hundred industries to be developed. Especially since entering the new era, it has constantly achieved new breakthroughs and achieved remarkable achievements, which is the result of the correct decision-making of the CPC Central Committee and the State Council. The achievements are hard won. The coal industrial structure should be continuously optimized. The main goal of coal capacity reduction in the 13th five year plan has been successfully completed. 80% of the coal output is provided by large coal enterprises, and important progress has been made in transformation and upgrading. The modern coal chemical industry has begun to take shape, the industry integrity system has been further strengthened, and the labor productivity has also been significantly improved. In particular, the situation of coal production safety is generally stable and continues to improve. The ecological civilization and green development of the mining area have been promoted. There are new changes in the current coal trend. From the perspective of coal demand, the growth rate of domestic macro-economy is declining, and the pull of industrial economy on coal consumption is weak. In some areas, the transformation of coal power from basic power to peak shaving energy is large. Although the transformation of coal industry has achieved great success, there are still bottlenecks restricting the development of coal industry at present. The tax burden of coal enterprises is too heavy, the financing is difficult and expensive. At the same time, the transformation of coal enterprises in old mining areas urgently needs policy support, and the low wages of coal workers need to be solved.

To be specific: first, it is more difficult to guarantee the emergency supply of coal. On the one hand, the peak valley power difference accounts for 50% of the power generation in large and medium-sized cities; on the other hand, the layout and region of the coal industry are changing, and some traditional coal transfer out of the province becomes transfer in province. In addition, with the implementation of "public to railway", the specifications and layout of coal transfer out have changed a lot. Second, the coal economy is facing downward pressure. The release of coal production capacity is accelerating, the growth of consumption is slowing down, and the price of coal is declining steadily. From January to September, the overall profit of Coal Enterprises above Designated Size in China dropped by 3.2%. In the next period, with the release of production capacity, the provision of new energy, the supply will shift to a loose direction. Third, the innovation of physical mechanism. It is very difficult to deal with the assets and debts of the coal mine closed and exited, the problems of personnel placement, enterprise running the society, and the problems of enterprise financing and expensive financing. It is more and more difficult to settle the coal mine closed and exited personnel, expecting the support of relevant industrial policies. Fourth, the tax burden of coal enterprises is still very heavy. The actual value-added tax burden of coal products is 10%, which is far higher than the national average level. The profits of new and old mining machines in the enterprise are unbalanced, but the income tax can not be calculated in combination, resulting in some enterprises paying income tax while losing money. Fifth, the transformation and development of coal mining enterprises in old mining areas are facing difficulties. For example, the coal resources are exhausted, the production capacity structure is single, the brain drain is serious, the policy support is not enough, the equipment funds are insufficient and other problems seriously restrict the transformation of old mining areas, especially the wage level of coal miners, which is lower than other industries, and one third of the old mining areas are still in the loss level.