Minister Xu Shaoshi addressed in the Opening Ceremony of CHINA MINING 2012.
Source: www.mlr.gov.cn Citation: www.mlr.gov.cn Date: Nov.4, 2012
(Photo: Yu Hongqi. Zhao Xinhao / Editor: Xie Min)
On the morning of November 4, 2012, CHINA MINING 2012 was held in Tianjin. The picture shows that the Minister of Land and Natural Resources and the Chairman of CHINA MINING Organizing Committee，Mr. Xu Shaoshi, attended the opening ceremony of CHINA MINING 2012 and read out the congratulatory message of the national leaders of PRC and delivered a speech
Ladies and Gentlemen, Friends:
On the occasion of the Opening Ceremony of CHINA MINING 2012, on behalf of the Organizing Committee and the People`s Republic of China Ministry of Land and Resources, I extend a warm welcome to old and new friends from all circles at home and abroad!
As an important platform for exchanges and cooperation of the international mining, CHINA MINING Congress and Expo has always been the attention of the Chinese government. The leadership of the State Council of the People`s Republic of China specially sent a congratulatory letter to express the congratulations on the CHINA MINING 2012 and good wishes to the Chinese government’s efforts to promote international cooperation in mining and development
Ladies and Gentlemen,
Four years ago, CHINA MINING became attached to the city of Tianjin which is open and inclusive. In the past four years, under the joint efforts of the various aspects of the CHINA MINING demonstrated an unprecedented openness and influence. The number of domestic and international participants has doubled and the exhibition area has nearly doubled. In the past four years, CHINA MINING has been closely linking to the development of the times and continuing to expand and enrich the forum and exhibition connotation. While focusing on the traditional topics of the international mining market, investment and trade policy, more attention to sustainable development has been paid to the congress and actively promoting an innovative, green and harmonious concept has also been advocated to promote a sustainable development and prosperity of the international mining.
In 2011, with the theme of “strengthen international cooperation and accelerate prospecting breakthrough”, CHINA MINING 2011 made great efforts to pass the confidence and determination in the international community to support the economic recovery prospecting breakthrough. It launched a total of 425 projects signed to discuss and played an important role in promoting world economic recovery. We are pleased to see that, after years of efforts, CHINA MINING has become an important platform for the international mining interface to the future to deepen exchanges and closer cooperation, which made the due contributions to promoting world economic prosperity and sustainable development. At present, the profound impact of the international financial crisis has not been resolved, and the instability of the global economic recovery, uncertainty still exists, which has slowed down the development momentum of the development of global mining. The theme of the CHINA MINING 2012 is “Join hands to meet challenges and promote sustainable development", which fully reflects the good intentions and determination of the international mining community to build consensus and promote cooperation with unity and to develop with cooperation. It highlights the substantial cooperation, stressing the union of the mining and financial industries, focusing on to attract the attention and participation of young friends. The aim is to further enhance the pragmatic nature of the congress, to enhance the inclusiveness to jointly crack the difficulties faced by the global mining development and challenges.
While China`s industrialization, urbanization and agricultural modernization is rapidly advancing, the Chinese government attaches great importance to the geological prospecting work, and efforts to promote the sustained and healthy development of CHINA MINING.
This year, our country has discovered and evaluated a number of hundred million tons of large oil fields and over one hundred billion cubic meters of gas fields. The Shale gas exploitation, deep water oil and gas exploration frontier has made significant technological breakthroughs. Number of coal, uranium, copper, aluminum, nickel, tungsten, iron, bauxite and other newly formed group of mineral resources were discovered in Xinjiang, Inner Mongolia, Qinghai, Jiangxi, Sichuan, Guizhou and the other areas where the mineral resources development pattern is undergoing major changes. Meanwhile, accelerated resource advantage has been transformed into an economic advantage, mineral exploration and development has become an important driving force in the economy and society.
We will further intensify its efforts to crack the mineral resources of the constraints of economic and social development efforts.
First of all, China will simultaneously advocate the exploitation and consumption, improve domestic resource support capability, fully implement the prospecting breakthrough strategy action, highlight the energy, the national shortage of resources and material resources to strengthen geological survey and resource exploration and make efforts to achieve the strategy target of the mineral exploration and development. At the same time, Chinese government will accelerate the green mine construction, promote the advanced technology and establish the standards and norms of resource conservation and comprehensive utilization, motivate and guide the mineral enterprises to exploit and utilize the mineral resources more scientifically and efficiently. And it will also establish a mining development mode with a scientific way of exploitation and efficient use of resources, a sound enterprise management practice, an environment-friendly production technology, a green ecological mining environment and a sustainable development, which will improve the support capabilities for the domestic resources of China.
Secondly, to speed up the system supply, we should effectively enhance the inherent vitality of mining industry of China. The new mechanism "comprehensively promoting, the convergence of public interest coming first, commerce follow-up, fund connecting, assembling exploiting and fast breakthrough" will lead us to build the pillars of a market-oriented platform, gathering the parties of capital, technology, talent, and effectively enhance the inherent power of the mineral exploration and development.
In June this year, the Ministry of Land and Resources and the National Federation of Industry and Commerce issued a series of policies and measures to encourage and guide the private capital actively involved in the mineral exploration and development, and strive to create an open and transparent market environment of fair competition. Currently the Ministry of Land and Resources and the Tianjin Municipal Government to explore the construction of the Tianjin international mining finance reform demonstration base to build a modern international mining and financial services system to foster mineral exploration in China`s capital market, making efforts to add lasting power for the mining development.
Third, China continues to promote the opening up to the outside world, to strengthen exchanges and cooperation with the international mining industry, struggle to form a benign interaction and cooperation in the new situation where CHINA MINING is taken as a leader, China Mining Association as the service carriers and the enterprises as the main target of implementation.
In April this year, the Ministry of Land and Resources issued a "further strengthen the policies and measures of the geological and mineral sector to foreign competition and cooperation”, which encourage foreign enterprises to invest in mineral exploration and development in China, and also to encourage domestic enterprises to go overseas to carry out international cooperation in mining, to achieve the mutually beneficial all-win.
Ladies and Gentlemen,
With the sustained and in-depth development of the globalization, the development of the world connected together as never before. At the critical moment in the difficult world economic recovery, the international mining community need to unite to work together to address the difficulties and challenges, and jointly promote the continued development of the global mining and lay a solid foundation for the recovery of the world economy.
I hereby would like to propose the following:
First, a firm confidence in the development should be established. Although a certain degree of adjustment and contraction in the current global mining, the good development has not changed fundamentally. Over the past three years, the global oil and gas and solid mineral exploration expenditures continuous to maintain substantial growth in which the year-on-year increase is up to 50%. The emerging national industrialization and urbanization continue to promote and the strong demand on resources will remain in a fairly long period of time. Recently, countries around the world has introduced a series of effective measures to promote economic recovery and growth, , which will provide a more active policy expected also for mining development. International mining industry should strengthen the development of confidence, actively plan the development, and be ready for the long-term sustainable development of mining.
Second, strengthen the consultation and cooperation. International mining industry should further expand the exchange of the mining industry, and deepen all-round cooperation in the field of mineral exploration and development, processing trade, management, technological innovation, environmental protection and etc., and achieve the complementary advantages and common development. We also should further strengthen the dialogue and consultation to promote the the mining investment liberalization and facilitation of trade, and to promote the exchange and sharing of mining policy and market information. The main minerals production side and consumption side should take care of each other`s concerns and establish and maintain the good order which is conducive to the market continuing to boom.
Third, promote the innovation and development. Innovation is the source power of the sustainable development of the science supporting the geological prospecting, achieving the efficient utilization of the resources and protecting the mine environment. International mining industry should use the clean production and new energy technologies in an integrated manner, make an effort to improve the environment, implement the fiscal policies that encourage the mining technology innovation, establish the market mechanisms to transfer the technology into the applications, and actively carry out technical exchanges and cooperation to promote mining technology , enhance the product trade liberalization and strengthen the exchange and sharing of mining technology innovation and management experience.
Ladies and Gentlemen,
The world economies are closely interdependent, and broad prospects for international cooperation in mining, I believe you peer will take full advantage of this conference providing an important platform to actively grasp opportunities for development and extensive dialogue exchanges, deepen foster cooperation, join hands in creating a better future of the international mining.
I wish the conference a complete success!
Sincerely wish that the ladies and gentlemen in China and good health!
Thank you!
（translated by TLRHVC）
About CHINA MINING
Since first held in 1999, the scope and influence of CHINA MINING has grown rapidly year by year. As a global mining summit forum and exhibition, CHINA MINING Congress and Expo has become one of the world’s top mining events, and one of the world’s largest mining exploration, development and trading platforms, covering all aspects of the whole mining industry chain, including geological survey, exploration and development, mining rights trading, mining investment and financing, smelting and processing, mining techniques and equipment, mining services, etc. playing an active promotion role in creating exchange opportunities and enhancing mutual cooperation between domestic and foreign mining enterprises.
CHINA MINING Congress and Expo 2012 is held at Meijiang Convention and Exhibition Center in Tianjin on November 3rd-6th, 2012 (Expo is opened on 3rd pm Nov., 2012). We invite you to join the event and to celebrate the 14th anniversary of CHINA MINING with us. For more information about CHINA MINING 2012, please visit: www.chinaminingtj.org.
