Background of Granite Quarries in China
In the early days of reform and opening up, our country encouraged collective and individual mining in villages and towns. Since then, private enterprises have accounted for the vast majority in the stone industry, in the rapid economic and social development to ensure the supply of stone, to provide jobs, increase revenue and other aspects played an important role.
However, large and small stone enterprises are springing up quietly; there is no standardized management and mode. Most stone enterprises are at the expense of the environment to develop and become a more severe pollution industry. With the gradual improvement of people’s awareness of environmental protection, the surrounding air pollution has become more and more serious, smog hidden danger, river pollution, noise pollution and so on have seriously affected people’s body and future.
And in the transformation and upgrading of the granite quarries industry in recent years, the policy of shutting down and rectifying mines has been issued one after another. All major mining areas across the country are carrying out drastic mine rectification, and the whole country is being shut down, which has dramatically changed the shape of the mine. A large number of traditional enterprises have been closed down and state-owned enterprises have entered stone mines.
In 2019, it is expected that more than 1,000 non-coal mines nationwide that do not have the conditions for safe production will be included in the list of closed mines. Relevant licenses such as mining licenses and safety production licenses will be directly revoked or revoked. Power and water supplies will be dismantled, transport and other production facilities and equipment. It is reported that 6,000 non-coal mines will be phased out by 2020.
Why Should The Granite Quarries in China Be Shut Down?
As the closure of the granite quarries, the granite processing enterprises suffered a serious impact. The processing of raw material stone material serious shortage, the domestic stone material supply is extremely unstable. Many foreign customers who had previously imported from China were also looking for alternative suppliers abroad.
Frankly, there are some problems that existed in granite quarries in China.
- Many models for the development and utilization of mineral resources are still extensive.
- The task of energy conservation and emission reduction is heavy.
- Environmental problems in mines are relatively prominent, they can not fully meet the new requirements of economic and social development.
On the other hand, the traditional sense of simply consuming mineral resources is changed, the model of development and utilization is characterized by high energy consumption at the expense of the ecological environment. In the meantime, the model of development and the mode of economic growth is fundamentally changed, the green mine construction has become the inevitable choice of the mine enterprise development.
How To Survive in the Resolution of Granite Quarries?
Mine closure of the mine, so that stone processing enterprises by a serious impact. There is a serious shortage of processing raw material stone, the supply of domestic stone material is precarious, and the price of available substitute stone material at home and abroad has increased one after another. If the granite industries want to survive, they must increase processing plant equipment and environmental input and reform the plant system and management.
What should be done?
(1) All mining and processing activities shall be prohibited and the mined and processed stone materials in the mine shall be gradually cleared out of the mining area under the supervision of the supervisory department.
(2) To dismantle production equipment, living facilities and related buildings and structures independently, carry out safety prevention work after the closure of granite quarries and properly resettle former employees according to law.
Prospect of Granite Industry in China
One of the biggest international initiatives planned was the creation of the 21st-century sea route of the Silk Road and the Overland Silk Road economic belt, or Belt and Road. The “Belt and Road” now covers about 4.4 bn people along the route and accounts for 29 percent of the world’s $21tn economy. Infrastructure is their weakness, and it is China’s current international advantage.
The natural stone industry is still far from the Sunset industry. In such a case, domestic demand is upgrading, and as far as our enterprises are concerned, the technology is also continuously upgrading. In addition to doing the original content, the granite stone industry, due to the upgrading of the domestic manufacturing industry, the engineering stone materials needed by the equipment manufacturing industry will bring high value-added products to the natural granite industry, increasing the demand.
There may be no need for pessimism after China’s “Belt and Road” in the construction stone industry. On the other hand, we need to upgrade the stone industry to high-value products through technological upgrading, especially in conjunction with China’s industrial upgrading. All of you here are sure to seize business opportunities and make achievements in future development.
