Land and Natural Resources 3 years to stop receiving applications for coal prospecting rights

 To protect and promote healthy and sustainable development of China's coal industry, to prevent excessive investment in exploration of coal resources, excess capacity, the Ministry decided to continue in the country 3 years suspended accepting new applications for coal prospecting rights.

reporter learned 10 from Ministry of Land, in the December 31, 2013 before, in addition to three cases, the nationwide moratorium on accepting new applications for coal prospecting rights. These three cases are: the focus of the State Council approved the project and the use of coal resource development center to carry out geological exploration of coal resources in pre-fund the investigation, survey and detailed investigation of the necessary items; using provincial financial arrangements to carry out geological exploration of coal resources in special funds for pre- investigation, survey and detailed investigation of the necessary items, a formal letter by the provincial people's government agreed to the project provider of Land and Resources; for the State Coal Industry Development enterprise resource depletion have been established around the coal mining rights and the deep should not be set independently scattered mining rights of coal resources exploration project, a formal letter by the provincial people's government provider of Land and Resources agree with.

Ministry stressed that the Central Geological Survey using provincial financial arrangements of the Fund or special funds for the geological exploration of coal resources exploration projects, exploration does not absorb social funds, submit the project report should also document and survey project special fund plan or the budget document the completion of the pre-investigation, survey and detailed investigation of the necessary work, according to write-off exploration rights, the implementation of mineral reserves shall not be set directly after the exploration and mining rights. The suspension period, the provincial administrative departments of land resources to strengthen the supervision of exploration of coal resources, good management of coal exploration. Irregularities of transfer behavior of coal exploration, will be held responsible according to law and staff responsibilities. (Xinhua Wang Libin)