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How to crack the curse of "mine exhaustion and city decline" in the third largest gold producing county in the country

Tongguan is the third largest gold-producing county in the country, known as the "Golden City of China", and it is also a resource-based city that is highly dependent on the development of the gold industry. Since the 1970 s, a total of 4,500,002 yuan of finished products have been sold and nearly 2.5 billion yuan of taxes and fees have been paid. After decades of high-intensity development, since the beginning of this century, the gold resources in Tongguan County have been exhausted day by day, the industrial efficiency has accelerated, and the fiscal revenue has shrunk significantly. Affected by this, there is a huge gap in people's livelihood investment, low public service capacity, serious ecological environment debts, and geological hidden dangers need to be rectified urgently. How to break the curse of "mine exhaustion and city decline", as a national resource transformation pilot county, Tongguan County,


 
Tongguan is the third largest gold-producing county in the country, known as the "Golden City of China", and it is also a resource-based city that is highly dependent on the development of the gold industry. Since the 1970 s, a total of 4,500,002 yuan of finished products have been sold and nearly 2.5 billion yuan of taxes and fees have been paid. After decades of high-intensity development, since the beginning of this century, the gold resources in Tongguan County have been exhausted day by day, the industrial efficiency has accelerated, and the fiscal revenue has shrunk significantly. Affected by this, there is a huge gap in people's livelihood investment, low public service capacity, serious ecological environment debts, and geological hidden dangers need to be rectified urgently. How to break the curse of "mine exhaustion and city decline", Tongguan County, as a national resource transformation pilot county, has begun practical exploration.
 
 
▲Tongguan is the third largest gold-producing county in the country. Since the beginning of this century, the gold resources in Tongguan County have been depleted. Ningya Rabbit/Photo
 
In 2011, Tongguan County was defined by the National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Land and Resources, and the Ministry of Finance as the third batch of resource-exhausted city transformation pilots. How to break the curse of "mine exhaustion and city decline" and get out of the path dependence of the gold industry, Tongguan County has begun the exploration and practice of transformation and development.
 
Start with the transformation of the leadership structure and working organization, and actively plan and explore the road of transformation and development.
 
Build a strong transformation work organization. Tongguan County has established a leading group for the transformation of resource-exhausted cities with the county party committee secretary as the team leader, the county head as the executive deputy team leader, the deputy county head in charge as the deputy team leader, and the heads of relevant functional departments as members, responsible for the organization of the transformation work And implementation. The establishment of a transformation office in the county development and reform bureau, the transfer of personnel to form a daily working group, clear the director in charge of the resident master, for the county's transformation work to provide a strong organizational leadership guarantee.
 
Establishment of an advisory committee to conduct research on transformational development. In order to improve the scientificity and implemensibility of the transformation plan, Tongguan County commissioned experts from well-known scientific research institutes in Shaanxi Province, such as Xi'an University of Architecture and Technology, Shaanxi Academy of Social Sciences, to compile the "Transformation Plan for Resource-exhausted Cities in Tongguan County, Shaanxi Province", and hired experts and scholars to establish Tongguan County Resource-based City Transformation and Sustainable Development Research Advisory Committee, responsible for the consultation and demonstration of transformation planning.
 
Mobilize and integrate the forces of all parties, and initially clarify the transformation and development ideas. After the promulgation of the "Tongguan County Resource-exhausted City Transformation Plan" compiled by the county advisory committee, after many times of mobilizing party and government cadres at all levels, deputies to people's congresses at all levels, CPPCC members, and business leaders, seminars and symposiums have been held to extensively solicit opinions and suggestions from provincial and municipal leaders and relevant parties, and formulate the "upgrade and extend the gold industry chain, develop and expand the cultural tourism industry, and cultivate the business logistics industry, the overall idea of" consolidating and expanding the fruit and livestock industry "has clarified the direction and goal for the transformation and development.
 
Make good use of the financial transfer payment funds of resource-exhausted cities at all levels, and start to establish a long-term promotion mechanism. Tongguan County actively solves the institutional drawbacks and institutional contradictions in economic and social development, closely centering on the idea of transformation and development, and closely combining with the reality of industrial development, Tongguan County has successively formulated and issued more than 10 supporting policies, such as the five-year Development Plan of Gold Industry in Tongguan County and the overall Development Plan of Tongguan Logistics Port, which are led by relevant departments and organized and implemented to build a long-term mechanism conducive to sustainable development. At the same time, 0.98 billion yuan will be invested in financial transfer payments from all levels to resource-exhausted cities in Tongguan County to continue the development of alternative industries.
 
After years of transformation exploration and practice, Tongguan County has realized the orderly development of mining industry, the coordinated development of three industries, the harmonious development of society and the coordinated development of urban and rural areas. At present, the continuous alternative industry of transformation and development has taken a solid step, and has initially formed a development pattern of multiple pillar industries. Since the implementation of the transformation strategy, the three major industrial structures of Tongguan County have been adjusted from 9.13: 55.35: 35.52 in 2012 to 12.2: 30.9: 56.9 in 2019, and the gap with the overall level of Shaanxi Province has gradually narrowed.
 
From production to marketing, an important step in extending the gold industry chain and improving the quality of the gold industry.
 
Formulated and promulgated the "Tongguan County Gold Industry Five-Year Development Plan", focused on promoting the construction of gold industry projects, and vigorously promoted the upgrading and transformation of the gold industry. Focusing on the regulation of mineral development order, the "Tongguan County Mining Dispute Mediation Measures (Trial)" and "Tongguan County Mineral Resources Integration Work Implementation Plan" have been successively issued, integrating 5 gold companies, reducing 24 mining rights, and improving gold resources Utilization rate. Invest more than 0.13 billion yuan to transform and upgrade Tongguan Jewelry City, polish the brand of "Tongguan Gold", and turn Tongguan Gold Jewelry Block from radiating surrounding cities and counties into a gold jewelry distribution center in northwest China.
 
 
▲ Invest more than 0.13 billion yuan to transform and upgrade Tongguan Jewelry City and polish the brand of "Tongguan Gold. Wang Huiying/Photo
 
At present, the annual sales volume is about 1 billion yuan and the annual profit is about 40 million yuan. In 2020, the output value of the gold industry will reach 9 billion yuan, and the output value and added value of non-gold industries will increase rapidly, and the proportion of the county's industrial output value and total added value will increase by more than 20%. In 2012, the "Tongguan model" was created in cracking down on illegal activities, which was highly praised by the supervision and inspection team of the State Council and the leaders of the provincial government, and the typical experience was popularized throughout the country.
 
Increase the strategic weight of "ecological county and tourism" to develop and strengthen the cultural tourism industry in an all-round way.
 
Tongguan County has successively introduced ecological environment management plans, making green a vivid background for transformation and development. Tongguan County has established the idea of governance and development at the same time, and has successively issued documents such as the implementation Plan for the Ecological benefit compensation of the National key Public Welfare Forest in Tongguan County and the opinions on the Comprehensive implementation of the Prevention and Control of heavy Metal pollution in Tongguan County. Historical problems such as land and water pollution in mining areas are being gradually solved, geological disasters in mining areas have been effectively prevented and the ecological environment quality of the county has been significantly improved. The progress of energy conservation and emission reduction has been fully met. The energy consumption per 10,000 yuan of GDP has been reduced from 0.6 tons of standard coal in 2012 to 0.1 tons of standard coal in 2018, an average annual decrease of 34.8. The total discharge of major pollutants decreased from 3081 tons in 2012 to 1317 tons in 2018, with an average annual decline of 15.2. Forest coverage and forest greening rate increased to 46 per cent and 46.2 per cent. In addition, vigorously implement the "Double Beauty Project" and carry out the comprehensive improvement of the rural environment to promote the integrated development of urban and rural areas to a new level, and the face of urban and rural areas has been completely new.
 
 
The total emission of major pollutants decreased from 3081 tons in 2012 to 1317 tons in 2018, with an average annual decline of 15.2. Fan Tongshun/Photograph
 
Formulated and promulgated the "Tongguan County Tourism Development Master Plan", "tourism +" industry integration development momentum is strong. Around the tourism industry gathering belt along the Yellow and Weihe rivers, we should deeply explore and carry forward the cultural potential of "Yellow River, gold, yellow land, ancient city, ancient customs and ancient battlefield", give priority to protection and scientific development, and vigorously develop ecological sightseeing tours, leisure and health preservation tours, wetland customs tours and Guanzhong folk tours around the two major tourism systems of "one city, three parks and one street" and "ten miles gallery · slow tour Tongguan, the Yellow River cultural tourism boutique scenic spots and boutique routes in the middle of the painting, solidly protect and inherit the Yellow River culture, build the Yellow River cultural tourism brand" Tongguan model ", and tell a wonderful" Yellow River story ".
 
Based on the advantages of wind resources, "green economy" has emerged. We have firmly established the concept of green development, successively introduced projects such as CGN and China Resources Wind Power, relying on the integration of unique geographical landscape and wind power landscape, bringing the dual benefits of tourism and new energy industry. (The author is the deputy director of the Reform Office of the Tongguan County Committee of the Communist Party of China)
 
Source: Mining Exchange