Editor's Note
Just as mineral resources are to mines, land is also an indivisible and important material resource in mining areas. However, unlike general industrial land, mining land is specialized, special and complex. The development and utilization of mining industry not only needs to deal with the relationship with the ecological environment, but also needs to deal with the relationship with the economical and intensive land use. The consolidation, reclamation and utilization of mining land are not only important propositions that cannot be avoided in the development of mining industry, but also the premise and foundation of ecological restoration in mining areas. Cherish every inch of land, save every kind of resources. In practice, while understanding and grasping and making full use of the policy, the mining industry actively explores the land-saving methods and operation modes of mining land, and develops and accumulates land-saving technologies and reclamation technologies of mining land, so as to turn the once abandoned mines into fertile fields and orchards, which have more beauty and connotation and become a beautiful footnote in the construction of mining ecological civilization in the new era.

The land reclamation and environmental protection work of Yunnan Phosphorus Chemical Group Co., Ltd. started in the 1980 s. It has always followed the principle of "development in protection and protection in development". Especially since 2004, it has increased efforts, increased investment, and innovative management. Reclamation of vegetation forms a long-term mechanism, which reflects a high sense of social responsibility and has won a good social reputation.

Chalco Guangxi Branch attaches great importance to the problem of land reclamation in mining areas. Through "borrowing land for mining", the land is reclaimed and returned to farmers for farming, which not only solves the problem of farmers' land, but also reduces the company's mining costs. Effectively promote land reclamation and ecological environment reconstruction.

China Coal Pingshuo Company has always adhered to the synchronous planning, implementation and development of enterprise economy and environmental protection, and adopted the mode of combining arbor, shrub and grass to restore the ecology, and the vegetation coverage rate of the dump reached more than 90%. it has created a precedent for mine land reclamation and ecological management in China.

Sishui County, Shandong Province introduced Huifeng Agricultural Development Company to carry out land consolidation in abandoned mining areas, adhering to the principle of comprehensive utilization of circular economy of "land restoration, solid waste utilization, new building materials, sightseeing agriculture and eco-tourism" in the land restoration area, taking land reclamation as the leader and ecological remodeling as the main line, so as to turn barren mines into flat and fertile land.

Starting from the spring of 2016, the abandoned mine Popeng Mountain in Donghong Village, Daixi Town, Wuxing District, Huzhou City, Zhejiang Province has been transformed into a thousand mu tea mountain.

The introduction of social capital in Sanhe City, Hebei Province has realized the mutual promotion of mine environmental governance, land reclamation and utilization, and the cultivation of new economic growth points. In the past, the mining farm has become an ecological demonstration area with agriculture, forests, and scenery.

Sea buckthorn trees planted on the reclaimed land of Dongsheng mine in Ordos, Inner Mongolia.

Yingdian Street Town, Zhuji City, Zhejiang Province, has invested funds to reclaim the mine, turning the original devastated mine into fertile fields and orchards.
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