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Wang Yongmei, Deputy Director of the General Office of the Ministry of Natural Resources, Spokesperson of the Ministry of Natural Resources, Lu Lihua, Deputy Director of the Department of Land and Space Ecological Restoration of the Ministry of Natural ResourcesModerator: Wang Yongmei, Deputy Director of the General Office of the Ministry of Natural Resources, Spokesperson of the Ministry of Natural ResourcesOn May 15, the Ministry of Natural Resources held a regular press conference, and the following is the transcript:
Wang Yongmei, Deputy Director of the General Office of the Ministry of Natural Resources and Spokesperson of the Ministry of Natural Resources: Good morning, friends from the media! Welcome to the regular press conference of the Ministry of Natural Resources in May.
Today's press conference mainly has three aspects: first, to introduce the approval of land use and sea use, real estate registration and other natural resource elements from January to April; The second is to introduce four national standards for mine ecological restoration, including "Technical Specifications for Coal Mine Land Reclamation and Ecological Restoration", "Technical Specifications for Metal Mine Land Reclamation and Ecological Restoration", "Technical Specifications for Land Reclamation and Ecological Restoration of Oil and Gas Projects", and "Technical Specifications for Monitoring and Evaluation of Mine Land Reclamation and Ecological Restoration"; The third is to introduce the relevant situation of World Oceans Day and National Ocean Awareness Day in 2024.
Present at today's press conference are: Lu Lihua, deputy director of the Department of Land and Space Ecological Restoration of the Ministry of Natural Resources, who will introduce the relevant situation and answer your questions.
Next, I will first introduce the relevant situation of natural resource elements such as the approval of land use and sea use and real estate registration from January to April.
The first is the approval of land use. From January to April 2024, the approved area of agricultural land conversion and land acquisition nationwide was 107,363.63 hectares (1,610,500 mu), an increase of 56.57% year-on-year; Among them, 218 projects were approved by the State Council, an increase of 275.86% year-on-year, and the approved land area was 51,145.61 hectares (767,200 mu), an increase of 240.32% year-on-year. The ministry approved 50 pilot land use projects for construction projects, a year-on-year decrease of 2.00%, and the approved land area was 2,864.49 hectares (43,000 mu), an increase of 76.05% year-on-year.
The second is the examination and approval of sea use. From January to April 2024, there will be 1,155 new sea-using island projects across the country, covering an area of about 96,200 hectares, an increase of 78.52% and 21.65% year-on-year, respectively. Among them, 23 new sea island projects were approved by the State Council, covering an area of about 9,000 hectares.
The third is the registration of real estate. As of January to April 2024, 31.028 million real estate registrations have been handled nationwide, and 19.487 million real estate property certificates and 8.597 million certificates have been issued. 3.732 million new commercial housing transfer registrations were handled, a year-on-year decrease of 16.5%; 1.887 million transfer registrations of stock commercial housing were handled, a year-on-year decrease of 1.4%. 8.421 million real estate mortgage registrations were handled, a year-on-year decrease of 5.6%; Among them, the mortgage amount of land, buildings under construction and houses increased by 5.5%, 5.8% and 0.9% respectively year-on-year.
As of April 2024, more than 2,000 counties and cities across the country have implemented the reform of "handing over land and handing over houses", and 5.589 million warrants have been issued, benefiting 61,900 projects and 12.85 million enterprises. All localities have actively promoted the reform of "transfer with mortgage" of real estate, and have handled a total of 186,000 cases of transfer business with mortgage across the country, involving a mortgage amount of 287.5 billion yuan.
Let me introduce the 2024 World Oceans Day and National Ocean Awareness Day.
June 8 this year is the 16th World Oceans Day and the 17th National Ocean Publicity Day, with the theme of "protecting the marine ecosystem, harmonious coexistence between man and nature", at that time, the Ministry of Natural Resources will work with the Fujian Provincial People's Government, Xiamen Municipal People's Government and other units and relevant departments to jointly hold the main event in Xiamen, with in-depth publicity and implementation of Xi Jinping's ecological civilization thought as the main line, focusing on learning and promoting the experience of "Xiamen practice", disseminating "Xiamen practice" to the international community, and releasing the international research report Xiamen Practice of Harmonious Coexistence between Man and Nature - Best Cases of Nature-based Solutions (Chinese and English versions), released the white paper on "China's Marine Ecological Protection", released the proposal of "Learning and Applying Xi Jinping's Ecological Civilization Thought "Xiamen Practice" Experience to Support High-quality Development with High-level Ecological Protection and Restoration", and launched the 2024 "Ocean Figures" publicity and release activities.
Next, Lu Lihua, deputy director of the Department of Land and Space Ecological Restoration of the Ministry of Natural Resources, is invited to introduce the relevant information of four national standards for mine ecological restoration, including "Technical Specifications for Coal Mine Land Reclamation and Ecological Restoration", "Technical Specifications for Metal Mine Land Reclamation and Ecological Restoration", "Technical Specifications for Land Reclamation and Ecological Restoration of Oil and Gas Projects", and "Technical Specifications for Monitoring and Evaluation of Mine Land Reclamation and Ecological Restoration".
Lu Lihua, Deputy Director-General, Department of Land and Space Ecological Restoration, Ministry of Natural Resources: Thank you, friends from the press, hello everyone! First of all, on behalf of the Department of Land and Space Ecological Restoration, I would like to express my heartfelt thanks to all of you for your long-term concern and support for the work of land and space ecological restoration!
Next, I will give a brief introduction to the four national standards recently promulgated: "Technical Specifications for Coal Mine Land Reclamation and Ecological Restoration", "Technical Specifications for Metal Mine Land Reclamation and Ecological Restoration", "Technical Specifications for Land Reclamation and Ecological Restoration of Oil and Gas Projects", and "Technical Specifications for Monitoring and Evaluation of Mine Land Reclamation and Ecological Restoration".
The development and utilization of mineral resources has strongly supported the national economic and social development, but at the same time, it has also brought many problems such as land damage, vegetation destruction, environmental pollution, and ecological degradation. In order to solve the above problems, the Mineral Resources Law, the Land Management Law, the Environmental Protection Law, the Soil and Water Conservation Law and other national laws and regulations, as well as the "Land Reclamation Regulations", have clarified the basic principles and requirements of "who develops, who protects", "who damages, who reclaims", "while mining, while governance", etc., the relevant administrative departments of the State Council and local governments have successively established policy mechanisms, standards and norms, supervision and law enforcement and other institutional systems and working mechanisms, and have been continuously improved. In order to promote the production of mines while mining and restoration, our ministry has formulated the "Implementation Measures for Land Reclamation Regulations" and "Regulations on the Protection of Mine Geological Environment", and established a restraint mechanism for source prevention and control and whole-process supervision, such as the review system of mine geological environmental protection and land reclamation plan, the system of accrual and use of reclamation and restoration costs, the system of annual plan implementation and quality acceptance, the credit supervision and punishment system of mining rights holders, and the system of creating green mines. Geological environment management and land reclamation and other legal obligations.
Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, under the guidance of Xi Jinping Thought on Ecological Civilization, the mainland has made unprecedented efforts to promote the construction of a beautiful China. Adhere to the concept of "lucid waters and lush mountains are invaluable assets", adhere to the concept of "protection in development and development in protection", and adhere to the concept of "harmonious coexistence between man and nature", and form a unified ideological consciousness and action consciousness in the whole society. The report of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China emphasized that "the new development concept must be implemented completely, accurately and comprehensively", "we must firmly establish and practice the concept that lucid waters and lush mountains are invaluable assets, and seek common development from the height of harmonious coexistence between man and nature", requiring all-round, all-region and whole-process strengthening of ecological environmental protection, promoting the construction of a beautiful China, and realizing the modernization of harmonious coexistence between man and nature. Mine ecological protection and restoration plays an important role in coordinating ecological security and resource security, promoting the high-quality development of mining, and promoting the harmonious coexistence of man and nature. The Mineral Resources Law, which is currently being revised, has set up a special chapter on "ecological restoration of mining areas", and some provinces have successively issued special local regulations on ecological protection and restoration of mines.
At the same time, it is also necessary to realize that some places are still taking the old road of "development and destruction" and "destruction first, then treatment", and the ecological protection and restoration of mines is a scientific and systematic project, and there are still deficiencies in the guidance of advanced concepts and the application of applicable technologies, and the ecological environment "old accounts have not been paid off, and new accounts are owed", and there is a considerable gap between the requirements of ecological priority, conservation and intensive, and green and low-carbon development. To solve the above problems, it is necessary not only to maintain strategic focus and persist in long-term success, but also to follow objective laws and strengthen scientific and technological support. The key one is to vigorously promote the construction of the technical standard system, give full play to the leading role of standards and norms, guide mining enterprises to actively and scientifically and effectively fulfill their restoration obligations, and help the administrative departments to perform their regulatory duties in a fair and just manner in accordance with laws and regulations.
In order to implement Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, especially Xi Jinping Thought on Ecological Civilization, and build a working mechanism that combines source protection with whole-process governance and restoration, we have organized China University of Geosciences (Beijing), the Land Consolidation Center of the Ministry of Natural Resources and other relevant units to compile and form the Technical Specifications for Coal Mine Land Reclamation and Ecological Restoration, Technical Specifications for Metal Mine Land Reclamation and Ecological Restoration, and Technical Specifications for Land Reclamation and Ecological Restoration of Oil and Gas Projects. Technical Specifications for Monitoring and Evaluation of Mine Land Reclamation and Ecological Restoration", which standardize the ecological restoration of production mines of coal mines, metal mines, and oil and gas projects, as well as the monitoring and evaluation of the ecological restoration process of production mines. The four national standards have been officially released at the end of April and will be officially implemented on August 1 this year. This is the first batch of national standards specifically for the ecological restoration of producing mines, which puts forward requirements for "mining and restoration" of production mines, filling the gap in this field.
The 4 national standards fully embody the new ideas and concepts of ecological civilization construction in the new era, fully connect with relevant laws and regulations and administrative management requirements, learn from the requirements of relevant foreign technical standards, absorb international advanced concepts such as nature-based solutions (NbS) and adaptive management, summarize the successful experience of the mainland, put forward 5 basic principles for mining enterprises to carry out ecological restoration, clarify the work requirements of 6 key links, and guide enterprises to follow the integrated protection and restoration concept of "mountains, rivers, forests, fields, lakes, grass and sand", and adhere to the priority of conservation. Conservation is the first priority, and the restoration of nature is the priority. By taking various measures such as mitigation and protection, prevention and control, and reclamation and restoration, we will promote the unified planning and implementation of mine ecological restoration and mineral resource exploitation, timely reclaim and utilize damaged land, restore and improve the diversity, stability and sustainability of the ecosystem in mining areas, and promote the construction of green mines in a coordinated manner, so as to realize the harmonious coexistence of man and nature.
Subsequently, we will strengthen the publicity and interpretation of the four national standards, and give full play to the leading and normative role of the national standards. Thank you!
Wang Yongmei, Deputy Director of the General Office of the Ministry of Natural Resources and Spokesperson of the Ministry of Natural Resources: Now, I would like to invite reporters to ask questions.
Voice of China: Thank you, the reporter from the Voice of China asked, I would like to ask Deputy Director Lu Lihua about this question, what is the significance of the introduction of these standards as the first batch of national standards specifically for the ecological restoration of production mines?
Lu Lihua, Deputy Director-General of the Department of Land and Space Ecological Restoration of the Ministry of Natural Resources: Thank you for your question. Generally speaking, the formulation and promulgation of the four standards have two roles and three significances.
In terms of the purpose and role of the formulation:
The first is to provide scientific support for mining enterprises to carry out ecological restoration. The four standards fully embody the new ideas and concepts of ecological civilization construction in the new era, fully connect with relevant laws and regulations and administrative management requirements, absorb international advanced concepts, refer to typical domestic experience and practices, and extend the ecological restoration chain from end treatment to source protection in accordance with the requirements of whole-process governance and restoration, emphasizing protection priority, source prevention and control, unified planning and overall implementation, combination of artificial guidance and natural restoration, systematic governance, improvement of functions, public participation, and whole-process monitoring, and propose landform remodeling and soil reconstruction in the production process, the specific measures for vegetation reconstruction and landscape construction to promote "mining and restoration" and reverse the "mining and destruction", which provides technical support for mining enterprises to scientifically carry out reclamation and restoration and improve the quality of governance effects.
The second is to provide a strong basis for the government to implement effective supervision. The four standards refine the tasks of ecological restoration at different stages in the whole process of mineral resource mining activities, highlight the objectives and measures of the ecological restoration stage at important time nodes, and provide a strong starting point and basis for local governments and industry authorities to implement the supervision and management responsibilities specified in laws and regulations, strengthen supervision during and after the event, and urge mining enterprises to fulfill their reclamation and restoration obligations in accordance with the law, so as to ensure the implementation of accurate and effective supervision and improve the efficiency of government management.
In terms of the significance of the formulation:
First, it is of great significance to practice Xi Jinping Thought on Ecological Civilization and promote the coordination of development and protection. The four standards implement the ecological civilization concepts of General Secretary Xi Jinping, such as "mountains, rivers, forests, fields, lakes and grasses are a community of life" and "lucid waters and lush mountains are invaluable assets", adhere to the policy of giving priority to conservation, protection and natural restoration, and promote mining enterprises to conscientiously practice the concept of ecological priority and green development. For example, the standard emphasizes minimizing ecological and environmental damage in the process of resource development and utilization, proposes the implementation of preventive measures such as topsoil stripping and vegetation transplantation, and cherishes and protects land resources and soil seed banks. At the same time, the standard guides mining enterprises to follow the law of succession and internal mechanism of natural ecosystems, closely combine mining activities with ecological restoration, restore damaged ecology in a timely manner, reduce the consumption intensity of land and ecological resources, and realize the harmonious coexistence of man and nature in the process of protection and protection in development.
Second, it is of great significance to implement laws and regulations and promote the conservation and intensive utilization of resources. A series of standards provide specific methods and paths for mining enterprises that are clearly defined in the current laws, regulations and departmental rules to "focus on prevention and combine prevention and control" and "production and construction activities should economize and intensively use land", promote the unification of administrative logic and technical logic, and guide mining enterprises to carry out mine ecological restoration in accordance with laws and regulations. For example, the standard reflects the relevant administrative requirements, proposing to implement avoidance and protection measures for sensitive protection targets such as cultivated land, permanent basic farmland, nature reserves, and ecological protection red lines, optimize the spatial layout of mines, improve land use efficiency, and achieve intensive and economical land use.
Third, it is of great significance to promote the construction of green mines and promote high-quality development. The series of standards promotes the complete, accurate and comprehensive implementation of the new development concept, introduces international advanced concepts such as nature-based solutions (NbS) global standards, and establishes a mine ecosystem restoration and reconstruction plan with local Chinese characteristics according to the natural conditions, social background and economic foundation of the mainland, so as to achieve the synergy between ecological protection and restoration and mineral resource development and utilization goals by means of efficient use of resources and adaptive management. For example, the standard encourages mining enterprises to optimize the mining process, give priority to the comprehensive utilization of solid waste, increase the amount of comprehensive utilization, slow down the land occupation and ecological disturbance caused by mineral resource mining activities, and strengthen the relevant requirements for green mine construction and green transformation and development of mining, so as to "take the time and take it to the degree" of nature, and ensure that the mining activities develop in a sustainable, circular and green direction.
Wang Yongmei, Deputy Director of the General Office of the Ministry of Natural Resources and Spokesperson of the Ministry of Natural Resources: Thank you for your strong support for the work of natural resources. This concludes today's regular press conference. If you have any other questions, please contact our press and publicity office after the meeting. Thank you!
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