A year's plan lies in spring. The successful convening of the National Two Sessions sounded the "assembly call" for the land of China, and also outlined a grand blueprint for how China's mining industry can improve quality and efficiency, transform and upgrade, and create an upgraded version of the mining economy.

Under the new economic normal, China's mining economy is at a key node of climbing over the hurdle ". Some representatives of the two sessions believe that China's mining industry should adhere to the "two-wheel drive" strategy of reform and transformation. The government should use the "subtraction" of power in exchange for the "multiplication" of market vitality, and stimulate the market through a number of reform measures such as streamlining administration and delegating power. Vitality creates a relaxed environment for the development of China's mining industry, and Chinese mining companies themselves must "sneak practice" in the trough and "in difficulties", strive for the early realization of "Phoenix Nirvana".

Mining is the basic industry of our country, which is very important to the economic development of our country. To a certain extent, the mining economy is the "barometer" of the national economy, and the national economy is the "wind vane" of the mining economy ". The prosperity of the mining economy is the prosperity of the entire national economy, and the loss of the mining economy is the decline of the entire national economy, and vice versa. Therefore, in the new era, how to realize the healthy and sustainable development of China's mining economy and "comprehensive well-off" in the promotion of the "four comprehensive" strategic layout is a major practical problem facing China's mining industry, and it is also a prominent problem that needs to be paid great attention to and solved seriously in the process of China's economic development.

Reform is the driving force of development and the biggest dividend of enterprises. Premier Li Keqiang pointed out in his government work report that "reform and opening-up is the magic weapon to promote development. We must focus on economic system reform to comprehensively deepen reform, make overall plans, do solid work, make new breakthroughs in reforms that affect the overall situation, and enhance new momentum for development." Obviously, in order to solve the many contradictions and problems existing in China's mining economy, we must rely on reform to release dividends and rely on streamlining administration and delegating power to stimulate market vitality.

However, decentralization is not easy to implement. Some deputies and committee members from the mining industry believe that at a time when the reform has entered a deep-water area and a critical period, it is becoming more and more difficult to promote and deepen the reform, and the restriction and impact on the mining industry is also increasing. In terms of streamlining administration and delegating powers, the new government has organically combined institutional reform with functional transformation and streamlining administration and delegating powers in the past two years, taking the reform of the administrative examination and approval system as a stepping stone and breakthrough point, and has been promoting the decentralization and reduction of administrative examination and approval projects. However, "the ideal is very full, and the reality is very skinny". In some places, administrative examination and approval has not been delegated or reduced, but has been taken back. As a result, the problem of "too many approvals" has not been solved, and the problem of "difficult examination and approval" has surfaced again.

Some deputies to the National people's Congress reflected that this is the case with the environmental protection department of a certain province. under the general trend of streamlining administration and delegating powers, instead of delegating the administrative examination and approval items that should be delegated, on the grounds of strengthening the prevention and control of heavy metal pollution, the environmental evaluation of mining enterprises has been withdrawn from the municipal environmental protection department to the provincial environmental protection department.

"there is no contradiction between the treatment of heavy metal pollution and streamlining administration and delegating powers, and we cannot simply take strengthening administrative examination and approval as the only means of governance." A representative of the National People's Congress from the province said, "The mining enterprises used to handle the EIA in the municipal environmental protection department, at most two or three months to do it, but now the power to the provincial environmental protection department, no half a year simply can not do it down. More importantly, some of the staff responsible for the specific work of the provincial environmental protection department are not familiar with the grass-roots situation, afraid of taking responsibility to push back, the office also do not do it."

"It's okay to raise the threshold and strengthen supervision for some small, polluting mining enterprises, but why can't we speed up the approval for some large, cleaner production mining enterprises?" The representative said helplessly.

In fact, similar situations exist elsewhere and in other sectors. Originally related to the vital interests of mining enterprises, the most decentralized administrative examination and approval items are tightly held in their hands and have not been delegated for a long time, while the decentralized items used to "make up the number" are all innocuous or long-term "rigid" equivalent to invalid matters. Such "decentralization" not only did not improve work efficiency, did not reduce the burden of mining enterprises, but became a "stumbling block" to the development of mining enterprises ".

What the deputies and members of the two sessions are concerned about is precisely what the party and government are trying to crack. The current problems in streamlining administration and delegating power have attracted the attention of party and state leaders.

"Simplifying administration and delegating power is the government's self-revolution. Cutting power is to touch interests. It is to cut one's wrist, and one has to endure pain." On March 15, Premier Li Keqiang of the State Council said in an interview with Chinese and foreign reporters that streamlining administration and delegating power is conducive to clarifying the relationship between the government and the market, stimulating market vitality, and can also be used to withstand the downward pressure of the economy. This year, the government should focus on three aspects of work: one is to completely abolish non-administrative licenses and cannot exercise power outside the law; the second is to promote the list of powers and responsibilities to allow social supervision; the third is to explore new models of supervision during and after the event.

The reform of the mining industry should not only be reflected in improving the efficiency of administrative examination and approval and reducing the cost of administrative examination and approval, but also in reducing the economic burden of mining enterprises and supporting mining enterprises to improve quality and efficiency. The government work report clearly stated in terms of accelerating price reforms and promoting fiscal and taxation reforms, improving the prices of resource products, fully implementing the residential tiered price system; adjusting and improving consumption tax policies, and expanding the scope of resource tax ad valorem.

Under the current new economic normal, the mining industry has encountered unprecedented difficulties and has fallen into a "superposition period" of "continuous decline in mineral product prices, prominent deep-seated contradictions and concentration of historical problems". It is undoubtedly a top priority to resolve contradictions and solve development problems through reform.

There is no doubt that the current mining industry is still "moving forward with heavy burdens". High tax burdens, excessive social burdens, and unreasonable charges have become important "obstacles" for the transformation and upgrading of mining enterprises ".

Although the resource tax reform in the coal industry has been "landed" and the collection standard of mineral resources compensation fees has been reduced to zero, various unreasonable fees and corporate society are like "two mountains" that overwhelm coal companies. Some representatives from the mining industry suggested "clearing fees and establishing taxes" and abolishing the "railway construction fund". It is no wonder that China Railway Corporation, like state-owned coal enterprises, is a state-owned enterprise, but it can exercise the power of the government to levy fees on coal enterprises in trouble. It is obviously unreasonable and contrary to legal principle not to cancel it. You know, in recent years, the China Railway Corporation has paid more than 100 billion yuan in principal and interest to the bank alone every year, and the money levied on coal enterprises, not to mention the interest, has been "swallowed" in vain, which is obviously unfair to the coal industry.

Relative to the coal industry, China's iron mining enterprises situation is not much better. At present, the fiscal and tax reform of iron mines has not yet been put in place, resource tax and mineral resources compensation fees are still measured and levied, the tax burden of enterprises is heavy, and the development potential is insufficient. A representative of the National People's Congress from an iron ore company in a certain province in Northeast China introduced that due to the heavy tax burden of iron mines, many local iron mines were closed and production was suspended, and local finances were unable to make ends meet. The mine geological environment management guarantee funds paid by mining companies were misappropriated. "The mine environment is well managed, but I don't know where the deposit that should have been returned is gone?" This reflects the local financial constraints caused by the shutdown of iron mines, and is also a microcosm of the "one-mine dominance" and over-reliance on mineral resources of the resource-based city.

For the mining industry, which is in the critical stage of climbing over the ridge, the current transformation and development is undoubtedly gnawing at the "hard bones". While relying on deepening reform to activate the market vitality, we should also rely on our own efforts to transform and upgrade, improve quality and efficiency, and strive to achieve better quantity and quality. Representatives and committee members from the mining industry believe that mining companies must adhere to the innovation-driven strategy, in terms of revitalizing stocks, adjust and optimize product structure, and develop marketable products to consolidate and improve the competitive advantages and profitability of traditional products. In terms of making good use of increments, it is necessary to adjust and optimize the industrial structure, lengthen the industrial chain, develop derivative products with high technological content, energy saving, environmental protection, and good economic benefits, and cultivate new economic growth points and competitive advantages. At the same time, it is necessary to strengthen management, practice internal skills, vigorously implement the strategy of "invigorating enterprises through science and technology", and create an upgraded version of the mining economy to improve quality and efficiency.

Things in the world are easy for those who are difficult for them, and difficult for those who are not. The National Two Sessions, which gather public opinion and discuss the status of the country, provide a platform and opportunity for China's mining economy to achieve transformation and upgrading, improve quality and efficiency, and also point out the direction and draw a blueprint. For governments at all levels, the key lies in their mental state and earnest implementation. It is necessary to overcome the "lazy politics" thinking, eliminate the "peace officials" phenomenon of "no trouble and no work, and fewer work", and have the courage to delegate power and dare to take responsibility., Actively create a good development environment for mining enterprises. For mining enterprises themselves, the key lies in real work, self-improvement, active play of the role of "internal force", courage to innovate, dare to strive for the first, and achieve new breakthroughs in adversity. At the time of the new round of development "long-distance running", government departments and mining enterprises should actively adapt to and integrate into the new normal, adhere to the "two wheel drive" of reform and transformation, so as to activate new vitality to win a new leap forward, and contribute to the sustainable development of China's mining economy and the realization of the dream of "mining power.