According to the news released by Shangxi's government recently, for this year in order to guarantee the sufficient energy supply, Shanxi will take multiple measures to elevate the coal output as well as the transportation efficiency. In addition it is estimated that approximately 100 new transformed coal mines will commence production this year and the overall capacity will amount to 100 million t.
Since 2008 Shangxi had already begun its resource integrations and merger activities in the coal industry. As a result, Shangxi's overall coal mines had been contracted from 2600 to 1053 and all of the remaining coal mines had been realized the mechanization with a single mine annual capacity of 1.2 million t. Although lots of new transformed coal mines did not commence their production in 2010, Shanxi's coal output had already hit a new record of 740 million t.
For 2011 Shangxi's coal output is expected to reach 780 million t and the government will shut down all of the disqualified coal mines till the end of late May, meanwhile Shangxi will accelerate the implementation of the related plans for the coal resource integration.