Beijing, September 6 (Xinhua) -- Mine safety production is crucial to the safety of people's lives and property, economic development, and social stability, and is of paramount importance to safety production. In order to thoroughly implement the spirit of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China and further strengthen the work of mine safety production, with the approval of the Party Central Committee and the State Council, the following opinions are proposed.

1、 Strict mining safety production access

（1） Strict safety access for coal mines with severe disasters. Stop building coal mines with coal and gas outbursts, rockburst, and extremely complex hydrogeological types with a production capacity of less than 900000 tons per year. Newly built coal mines with coal and gas outbursts, rockburst, and extremely complex hydrogeological types should be designed with intelligent mining and excavation in principle.

（2） Strictly control the source of non coal mines. Strictly follow the requirements of mineral resource planning, national spatial planning, and usage control to scientifically and reasonably set up mines. Mineral resource exploration should reach the prescribed level, and the minimum distance between adjacent mining production and construction operations should meet relevant safety regulations. Open pit mines for ordinary buildings using sand and gravel should not be delineated by ridges. Except for situations that comply with regulations, the scope of newly established mining rights shall not overlap with the vertical projection scope of existing mining rights, and no more than two mining rights shall be established for the same ore body that can be developed centrally. The scale stated in the mining license is the proposed construction scale. The mining design unit may, based on the feasibility study of the project, fully consider factors such as efficient resource utilization, safety production, and ecological environment protection, and scientifically demonstrate and determine the actual production and construction scale in the preliminary design and safety facility design of the mine. Mining enterprises shall strictly follow the approved safety facility design for construction and production.

（3） Standardize safety production administrative licensing. The design review of safety facilities and approval of safety production permits for coal mines, underground metal and non-metal mines, tailings ponds and other mines shall be the responsibility of the mining safety supervision department at or above the provincial level, and shall not be delegated or entrusted. The mining safety supervision department shall formulate safety facility design review standards for mining construction projects, strictly review the substantive content, and shall not only review the procedures and forms. In principle, safety facility design shall not be approved for mining development without a one-time overall design. In principle, only one production system can be set up within the scope of one mining right. For first-time applications for safety production licenses, on-site inspections should be conducted.

2、 Promote the transformation and upgrading of mines

（4） Classify and dispose of mines that do not meet safety production conditions. For those who engage in mining of mineral resources without obtaining a mining license or a safety production license in accordance with the law, engage in mining beyond the boundary, use mining instead of construction, mine with an exploration license and refuse to rectify, use metal and non-metal mines that are associated with coal but still cannot meet the conditions for coal mine safety production after production suspension and rectification, use outdated processes and equipment that endanger production safety and refuse to rectify but still produce and construct, or close and ban mines that still do not meet the conditions for safety production after production suspension and rectification in accordance with the law. Actively guide the withdrawal of mines that have been shut down for a long time and have exhausted resources, as well as coal mines that are severely affected by disasters and difficult to effectively prevent and control.

（5） Promote the closure and cancellation of tailings ponds. Tailings ponds that have reached the final design elevation, are no longer in operation, have been out of service for more than 3 years, or have no production or operation entities should be promptly closed for treatment and cancelled. The tailings pond that has completed the closure treatment should be cancelled by the local government at or above the county level, no longer used as a tailings pond, and cannot be reused for tailings discharge.

（6） Implement the integration and restructuring of non coal mines. Encourage large mining enterprises to merge, restructure, and integrate small and medium-sized non coal mining enterprises for technological transformation. Promote the integration and reorganization of enterprises such as non coal mines with two or more different mining entities belonging to the same ore body, non coal mines with production and construction operations that do not meet relevant safety regulations at the minimum distance, and ordinary building sand and gravel open-pit mines delineated by ridges, to unify mining planning, production systems, and safety management.

（7） Accelerate the upgrading and transformation of mines. Promote the mechanization upgrading and transformation of small and medium-sized mines, as well as the automation and intelligence upgrading and transformation of large-scale mines, accelerate the intelligent construction of mines with severe disasters and high altitudes, and create a number of benchmark mines for automation and intelligence. Underground mines should establish systems for personnel positioning, safety monitoring, communication, compressed air self rescue, and water supply rescue. In principle, the filling mining method should be used for the construction, renovation, and expansion of metal and non-metal underground mines. If it cannot be used, it should be strictly demonstrated. Small and medium-sized metal and non-metal underground mines shall not have more than four production levels mining simultaneously. An online safety monitoring system should be established for tailings ponds, and newly built fourth and fifth class small-scale tailings ponds should adopt one-time dam construction.

（8） Improve the ability to support technological innovation. Strengthen the construction of the mining safety technology support system. Strengthen research on the prevention and control of major mining disasters, and organize major key technological breakthroughs. Promote the research and application of mining informatization, intelligent equipment, and robots. Implement a batch of major technological projects related to mine safety. Research and promote the construction of a national key laboratory in the field of mining safety.

3、 Preventing and resolving major security risks

（9） Establish a sound mining safety management system. Mining enterprises should establish a standardized safety production management system with a dual prevention mechanism of safety risk classification control and hidden danger investigation and governance as the core. Strictly carry out risk identification and assessment, implement graded control, regularly conduct full coverage hidden danger investigation and governance for all staff, establish a risk and hidden danger ledger list, and implement closed-loop management. Mining safety supervision and inspection departments at all levels should promote enterprises to effectively improve the quality of risk and hidden danger investigation and rectification, establish a system for supervising the governance of major hidden dangers, track and supervise before the elimination of major hidden dangers, and supervise the rectification and cancellation of accounts. If major hidden dangers still exist or accidents occur due to inadequate investigation and rectification, the enterprise and relevant responsible persons shall be held accountable in accordance with the law.

（10） Strengthen the management of major disasters. Mining enterprises should identify hidden disaster causing factors, implement zoning management and advanced control of major disasters such as coal and gas outbursts, rockburst, and water disasters. Include the identification of coal mine disaster levels in the scope of safety inspection and timely publicize the identification results. Standardize the management and verification of coal mine production capacity. For metal and non-metal open-pit mines with slope heights greater than 100 meters, slope stability analysis should be conducted annually. If the volume of goaf in metal and non-metal underground mines exceeds the prescribed limit, a special stability assessment should be conducted in a timely manner. The drainage structure of tailings pond should undergo quality inspection every 3 years.

（11） Strictly manage the safety of equipment and facilities. Improve the mechanism for reviewing, issuing, and supervising safety signs for special equipment in underground mines. Regularly conduct safety and reliability inspections on equipment and facilities in use that have obtained safety signs for special equipment in underground mines. Establish a smart supervision platform for the entire lifecycle of mining safety equipment and implement a system for holding mining equipment responsible for safety.

（12） Standardize the management of non coal mine outsourcing projects. Non coal mining enterprises are responsible for the safety management of outsourced construction units. It is strictly prohibited to outsource blasting operations in underground metal and non-metal mines. The number of contracting units for metal and non-metal underground infrastructure mining excavation projects shall not exceed three. The number of contracting units for mining projects in large and medium-sized metal and non-metal underground production mines shall not exceed 2, and the number of contracting units for mining projects in small metal and non-metal underground production mines shall not exceed 1. Contracting units are strictly prohibited from subcontracting or subcontracting mining projects and blasting operations. The contracting unit shall dispatch project leaders, technical personnel, and special operation personnel to the project department; The project leader and technical personnel shall have a vocational school diploma or above in mining related majors or intermediate or above professional technical titles, and shall not hold part-time jobs in other mines. Strive to establish our own mining (stripping) construction team or entrust enterprises with corresponding conditions for overall management of production mines by the end of 2025.

（13） Strengthen the safety control of mines that have been shut down or suspended production. Mines that have suspended work and production for rectification should develop rectification plans, limit the number of people working in a single shift, and limit the number of people working in the same location to no more than 10. The rectification work can only be carried out after reporting to the mine safety supervision department. Local governments and relevant departments should implement on-site monitoring and inspection of coal mines that have been suspended or shut down for rectification, and implement on-site monitoring or inspection responsibilities for other suspended or shut down mines. They should also conduct resumption of work and production acceptance in accordance with regulations. If construction and production continue to be organized during the suspension period due to inadequate supervision and inspection, the responsibility of the enterprise and relevant responsible persons shall be seriously investigated in accordance with the law.

（14） Enhance the ability to monitor, warn, and handle risks. Strengthen the construction of comprehensive monitoring, early risk identification, and early warning and forecasting capabilities for multiple types of disasters and disaster chains in mines. Regional mine rescue teams should be established in areas with concentrated mines. Underground mines and tailings ponds should establish emergency broadcasting and other communication systems to ensure that emergency instructions can be conveyed to all personnel within the affected area in a timely manner. Strengthen emergency plan drills, evaluations, and revisions. Before the annual flood season, local governments should organize joint drills between tailings pond "overhead pond" enterprises and downstream residents. Strengthen the warning and forecasting of catastrophic weather, and strictly prohibit personnel from entering wells in extreme weather conditions.

4、 Strengthen the main responsibility of enterprises

（15） Implement the responsibilities of the main person in charge. The main responsible persons of mines and their superior enterprises (including legal representatives, actual controllers, and actual responsible persons) shall fulfill their first responsibility for safety production in accordance with the law, increase safety investment and training efforts, and timely study and solve major safety production problems in mines. The headquarters of mining enterprises should strengthen the supervision and inspection of subordinate enterprises, and the main person in charge should regularly supervise and inspect the safety production work at the production site. It is strictly prohibited to issue production plans or business indicators that exceed the capacity. Promote the safety production assessment and scoring system for mine managers.

（16） Establish a sound safety management organization. The headquarters of central enterprises involved in mining and large and medium-sized enterprises involved in mining should be equipped with safety directors. Underground mines should be equipped with a mine manager, chief engineer, and deputy mine managers in charge of safety, production, mechanical and electrical work. The personnel equipped should have a college degree or above in mining related majors or intermediate professional technical titles, and are not allowed to work part-time in other mines. Coal mines, metal and non-metal mines, and tailings ponds shall be equipped with full-time technical personnel with relevant professional secondary school education or above or intermediate professional technical titles. Mines with severe disasters should be equipped with dedicated leaders, specialized institutions, and professionals for disaster management as required.

（17） Strengthen the management of security infrastructure. Mining enterprises should establish and implement a comprehensive safety production responsibility system and safety production management system for all employees. Draw and update relevant drawings as required, and submit them to the mining safety supervision department. Employees who have not received safety training and are not qualified are not allowed to work. The mine manager, chief engineer, and deputy mine managers in charge of safety, production, mechanical and electrical work should receive specialized safety education and training every year. The special operation personnel in underground mines who obtain evidence for the first time should have a high school education or above. Strictly manage the underground labor quota, arrange personnel to work underground beyond the quota, and increase the allowance for difficult underground positions. Cancel the underground labor dispatch employment, and mining enterprises or contracting units shall bear the responsibility for repaying unpaid wages in accordance with the law.

5、 Implement the responsibilities of local party and government leaders and departmental supervision and supervision

（18） Implement the responsibilities of local party and government leaders. Adhere to the principle of equal responsibility between the Party and the government, dual responsibility for one position, joint management, and accountability for dereliction of duty, strictly implement the leadership responsibility for mine safety, organize regional surveys and governance of hidden disaster causing factors in mines, and severely crack down on illegal mining of mineral resources. Strengthen the construction of mining safety supervision institutions and teams, and ensure that the proportion of professional supervision personnel is not less than 75% of the employed personnel. The main leaders of the party and government in key cities and counties for mine safety should regularly study the work of mine safety production and conduct in-depth supervision and inspection of underground mines. Implement a safety production responsibility system for coal mines, underground metal and non-metal mines, and tailings ponds under the leadership of municipal and county-level local governments.

（19） Implement the responsibility of mine safety supervision. Each region should adhere to the principle of clear responsibility and accountability, clarify the jurisdiction of three-level mine safety supervision and law enforcement at the provincial, municipal, and county levels according to the principle of classification, clarify the main body of daily safety supervision of mines and tailings ponds, establish a joint law enforcement and problem clue transfer mechanism among departments, vigorously improve the professional competence of law enforcement, and effectively enhance the strong willingness and ability to discover and solve problems. The safety supervision of mines under central enterprises should be the responsibility of departments at or above the municipal and prefectural levels. The safety supervision of high-risk mines such as "overhead tailings ponds", metal and non-metal underground mines with mining depths exceeding 800 meters, or metal and non-metal open-pit mines with slope heights exceeding 200 meters, shall not be delegated to county-level departments in principle. According to the principle of "whoever is in charge is responsible", the mining safety supervision and inspection department is responsible for the supervision and management of mining safety and mining safety production. According to the requirements of "managing industry must manage safety, managing business must manage safety, and managing production and operation must manage safety", other relevant departments should comprehensively promote the implementation of various requirements for mine safety production in industry management, business management, and production and operation management. The offices of safety production committees at all levels should strengthen coordination and guidance on mine safety production work.

（20） Strengthen national supervision of mining safety. Establish a sound national mine safety supervision system, with the national mine safety supervision department responsible for supervising and inspecting local mine safety supervision work, and providing opinions and suggestions to local governments on improving and strengthening mine safety supervision work. Coordinate the construction of the mining safety supervision, supervision, and law enforcement guarantee system, promote the implementation of the supervision and supervision capacity building plan, improve the technical support system, and enhance the national mining safety intelligent supervision and supervision system.

6、 Promote the legal governance of mining safety

（21） Strengthen the construction of law enforcement guarantees. Promote the revision of the Mining Safety Law, formulate regulations on coal mine safety production, and strengthen the standardization of mining safety construction. Improve the training mechanism for professional talents in mine safety supervision and supervision, and enhance the guarantee of remuneration. Strengthen the construction of online monitoring networking and comprehensive information platform for mine safety, and enhance the guarantee of law enforcement equipment.

（22） Strengthen safety supervision and inspection. The management and safety supervision departments of the mining industry should strictly inspect and enforce the law, and it is strictly prohibited to use penalties as collateral or ignore them. Promote the establishment of a sound mechanism for the transfer of mining safety production cases, administrative law enforcement, and criminal justice, and promptly transfer suspected crimes to judicial authorities in accordance with regulations. Strengthen the supervision and management of third-party service organizations such as safety evaluation, design, testing, inspection, certification, consulting, training, and supervision in the mining field. Establish a public system for mine safety evaluation, testing, and inspection reports. Establish and improve the system for publicizing major illegal and irregular information, the system for joint punishment, and the system for rewarding reports. Establish a responsibility investigation mechanism, strictly implement the principle of "who inspects, who signs, who is responsible", and hold accountable those who fail to handle or track the rectification of major hidden dangers in accordance with the law.

（23） Strictly investigate and handle accidents. For major accidents involving risks, concealment and false reporting of major and below mining production safety accidents, the investigation shall be upgraded according to the situation. Upon receiving a report of concealing or falsely reporting an accident, the local government at or above the county level should organize an investigation. Mines that have experienced major or more fatal accidents shall suspend production for rectification, and production can only resume after passing the inspection and meeting the safety production conditions.

7、 Strengthen organizational implementation

（24） Establish sound safeguard measures. Each region and relevant department should strengthen organizational leadership, clarify task division, refine work measures, and study supporting policies. We need to coordinate funding channels, strengthen funding guarantees for mine elimination and withdrawal, tailings pond management, information systems, intelligent mine construction, and safety supervision and inspection. The Emergency Management Department takes the lead in establishing a mine safety coordination and promotion mechanism, and incorporates the implementation of this opinion into the assessment and inspection of provincial government safety production and fire protection work. Disciplinary inspection and supervision organs, organizational and personnel departments, and safety production supervision and supervision departments shall, in accordance with their authority and responsibilities, hold accountable those who fail to fulfill their safety production responsibilities in accordance with regulations, discipline, and law, to ensure that all deployment requirements for mine safety production work are implemented in place.