The remaining and newly discovered coal resources in northeastern China's Liaoning province may be only used for 20 years due to accelerating depletion caused by high consumption in the province, local paper reported, citing officials.
Besides the existing reserves of 4 billion tonnes, the province discovered some 3 billion tonnes in recent years, but generally only half of which, or 3.5 billion tonnes could be mined, said Chen Bicheng, head of the provincial coal industry bureau in an interview.
Considering last year's consumption of 165 million tonnes and expected annual use of 170 million tonnes during the 12th Five-Year Plan, these reserves may only enough for 20 years or so, Chen said.
Though with complete coal types, Liaoning can merely produce 60 million tonnes coal each year. It has to buy 100 million tonnes from Inner Mongolia, Heilongjiang and Shanxi, Chen added.
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To alleviate local resources pressure, Liaoning has started to develop coal resources in other provinces. Presently, the province's coal miners have gained exploring and mining rights for 18 billion tonnes coal and oil shale in Jilin, Heilongjiang, Shanxi, Hainan and Inner Mongolia, showed data from provincial coal industry bureau.
In addition, the province has constructed an opencast coal mine with production capacity of 10-million-tonne level and a thermal power plant with 1.2 million kW of installed capacity in Inner Mongolia.
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