According to reports, Hami area is located in the eastern part of Xinjiang and is rich in coal resources. According to the data released by the third national coal resources survey, the predicted coal resources in Hami are more than 570 billion tons, accounting for 12.5% of the total national forecast. China's Lanzhou-Xinjiang Railway provides convenience for coal transportation.
According to the relevant deployment of the People's Government of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, starting from this year, Xinjiang will explore 6,543,800 square kilometers in Tuha coal base in two years, and it is estimated that more than 80 billion tons of proven coal resources will be added. Since February this year, Xinjiang Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources and Xinjiang Bureau of Coal Geology have started comprehensive exploration in Hami and Turpan areas. Up to now, Xinjiang Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources has discovered two extra-thick coal seams with thicknesses exceeding 40 meters and 90 meters respectively in Dananhu-Yemaquan coal resources pre-investigation project area of Tuha coalfield, which provides direction and important basis for coal exploration, which is hundreds of square kilometers around.
According to the introduction of Xinjiang Coal Industry Bureau, in order to comprehensively utilize and develop Xinjiang coal resources, the state has clearly implemented the "one main wing" railway construction project from Xinjiang to the mainland from June this year. "One owner" refers to the planned investment of 654.38+02 billion yuan to build Lanzhou-Xinjiang passenger dedicated line. After the completion of the project, the existing Lanzhou-Xinjiang railway will be changed into a freight dedicated line for transporting resources such as coal in Xinjiang; The "two wings" refer to Xinjiang Jiangjunmiao-Balikun-Yiwu-Ceke (Inner Mongolia) Railway and Hami-Dunhuang-Xining-Chengdu Railway respectively. The project is expected to be completed within three years, and the annual coal transportation capacity of the first phase will reach 300 million tons. These railways will pass through Hami area, which provides convenience for Hami coal transportation.
In order to speed up the construction of "transporting coal from west to east", Hami has also accelerated the construction of infrastructure such as roads, electricity and services. In 2008, the investment in power infrastructure construction alone reached 208 million yuan, covering key mining areas in Hami. At present, more than 30 large enterprise groups such as Huadian, Lu Shanxi 'an, Shandong Luneng and Jiangsu Xukuang have settled in Hami and completed company registration, among which more than 20 enterprises have completed resource allocation and some coal deep processing projects have started construction.
According to reports, at present, Hami has been approved by the government of the autonomous region to start construction of nine coal mine projects and eight technical transformation coal mine projects during the Eleventh Five-Year Plan period, and all of them will be put into production this year. The total scale of mines under construction and production in Hami this year will reach 38 million tons. According to the relevant development plan of coal industry in Hami area, before the special railway line of "West Coal to East" is completed and put into operation in 20 13, the planned total coal production capacity of Hami will reach1970,000 tons/year, 300 million tons/year in 20 15 and 500 million tons/year in 2020.