“At present, my country’s iron ore development enterprises are too scattered. China should build 3 to 4 large-scale iron ore leading enterprises so that we can concentrate our strengths on technological innovation and green development of mines.” Member of the National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, Anshan CPPCC Vice Chairman Cui Lun said in an interview with a reporter from China Metallurgical News. Cui Lun has worked in the steel industry for many years and is deeply concerned about the pain of my country’s high dependence on foreign mines for iron ore resources. During the two sessions（The fourth meeting of the Third National People’s Congress of the People’s Republic of China.）, the proposal he brought was related to expanding the scale of domestic iron ore mining. #TwoSessions China Focus:
China is the world’s largest importer of iron ore. In 2020, China’s iron ore imports amounted to 1.170 billion tons, and its dependence on foreign iron ore reached 80.4%. Iron ore imports are heavily dependent on Australia and Brazil. The “Guiding Opinions on Promoting the High-Quality Development of the Iron and Steel Industry (Draft for Comment)” issued by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology before the end of last year emphasized that the diversification of the industrial chain and supply chain has been promoted, and the ability to protect iron, manganese, chromium and other ore resources has been significantly enhanced. The domestic self-sufficiency rate has reached over 45%. Cui Lun believes that the realization of this goal depends on expanding the scale of domestic iron ore mines. “If the two problems of environmental protection and industrial protection in the domestic iron ore industry are resolved, the obstacles restricting the development of the domestic iron ore industry will be unblocked.”
Recently, due to the superimposed effects of multiple factors, the international iron ore price has risen sharply and fluctuates sharply. The ultra-high iron ore import volume, dependence and high concentration of overseas suppliers will affect the healthy development of the domestic steel industry and seriously Threatening national security and industrial security, expanding domestic iron ore resource mining is imminent. “Cui Lun said.
He told reporters that in terms of the distribution of domestic iron ore resources, Anshan iron ore reserves rank first in the country, with proven reserves exceeding 10 billion tons and prospective reserves of 26 billion tons, accounting for about 25% of the country’s total. The total amount of mining has reached 1.5 billion tons, accounting for only 5.8% of the total. At the same time, Ansteel Mining Company is currently the only leading metallurgical mine enterprise with a complete industrial chain in my country. It has a relatively complete iron ore mining and beneficiation system such as digital mine construction, lean hematite beneficiation technology, and key technology for low-loverage and green mining of underground iron mines. . It can be seen that Anshan has the advantage of preferential and concentrated mining of iron ore resources in terms of resource reserves and technical reserves.
Therefore, Cui Lun believes that during the “14th Five-Year Plan” period, the scale of iron ore mining in Anshan should be increased, taking Anshan as a pilot, and promoting my country’s domestic industry through the establishment of industrial protection funds, tax and fee adjustment mechanisms, and green and intelligent mining. The effective development and utilization of iron ore resources will speed up the resolution of iron ore guarantee-related issues, thereby promoting the supply of domestic iron ore resources, and striving to maintain the stability and safety of the industrial chain and supply chain.
Cui Lun suggested to increase the development scale of my country’s iron ore resources from the following aspects:
- Speed up the top-level design of iron ore resources from the perspective of national security.
It is recommended that from the perspective of national strategic security and industrial security, my country’s iron ore resource security should be upgraded to a national strategy, and the “14th Five-Year Plan” and mid- and long-term plans should be issued as soon as possible to vigorously support the development of domestic iron ore and upgrade domestic iron ore. Resource guarantee capability. At the same time, it supports Angang Mining and other leading domestic mining companies to vigorously develop new technologies, new processes and equipment such as fine exploration, comprehensive mining, economical and intensive use, and recycling, and focus on green mines, digital mines, smart mines, hematite beneficiation, underground iron Technological innovation in green mining and other aspects.
- Create a green mining system from the perspective of advanced technology.
It is recommended to start from the perspective of resource-saving and environment-friendly development and utilization methods to minimize the disturbance and damage to resources and the environment. In principle, all newly established iron ore mining projects adopt underground mining techniques, and the original open-pit mining is encouraged to be converted to underground mining. At the same time, promote the application of the Anshan Chentaigou Iron Mine Project to fully implement underground mining and dressing integration, tailings backfilling technology, and use the filling mining method to implement underground mining in the domestic super large black underground deep mines, so as to achieve no surface subsidence and tailings Pai’s green mining concept realizes green and smart mining and reduces damage to mountains and vegetation.
- Establish a tax and fee adjustment mechanism from the perspective of industrial development.
“Due to the relatively high cost of domestic iron ore resource development, about 70 US dollars per ton (foreign iron ore offshore cash cost is about 32 US dollars per ton), when the price of iron ore is high, domestic related companies have considerable profits. However, when the price of iron ore remains low for a long time, relevant companies will be in a state of difficulty in production and operation for a long time.” Cui Lun said.
To this end, Cui Lun proposed to protect the healthy development of related enterprises by setting up a tax and fee adjustment mechanism for the iron ore industry: the tax and fee adjustment mechanism is set up at 4 levels, and when the price of iron ore is higher than 75 US dollars/ton, taxes and fees will be charged normally. ; If it is less than US$75/ton, but higher than US$60/ton, 25% of taxes and fees will be reduced; if it is less than US$60/ton, 50% of taxes and fees will be reduced; when it’s less than US$50/ton, 75% of taxes will be reduced Taxes and fees, and provide certain discounted loans and other supporting policies to ensure stable cash flow and stable operation and production.
- Establish an iron ore mining and processing industry protection fund from the perspective of industrial protection.
Establish an iron ore industry protection fund. When domestic iron ore companies continue to lose money due to low iron ore prices, the iron ore industry protection fund enters in time and adopts the method of “compensating for abundance” to ensure the production and operation of the company. stable. The lowest level of US$50/ton that adopts the tax adjustment mechanism is the response point of the protection fund’s intervention. When the price of iron ore is lower than US$50/ton, the actual production volume and the price of iron ore on the day will be used to subsidize the day’s iron The difference between the price of ore and US$50/ton; when the price of iron ore is higher than US$80/ton, a certain percentage will be returned in units of ton to the expenditure of the Industrial Protection Fund when the price of iron ore is lower than US$50/ton. The iron ore mining and processing industry protection fund balances revenue and expenditure.
Post time: Mar-14-2021