en.Wedoany.com Reported - On April 1st, the Department of Natural Resources of the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region in China issued the "Detailed Implementation Plan for the Autonomous Region's Mine Ecological Restoration and Governance Action". The plan specifies the establishment of a mining-damaged land database consistent with national standards by 2026, and the further strengthening of the whole-process supervision mechanism by 2027, aiming to institutionalize, standardize, and establish a long-term mechanism for mine ecological protection and restoration.
According to the plan's deployment, Ningxia will systematically advance efforts from five key areas: improving the institutional and normative system for mining area ecological restoration, conducting in-depth surveys on the status of mining-damaged land, and promoting the restoration of historically abandoned mines. This will build a full-chain work system encompassing "institutions + survey + rectification + restoration + governance".
Regarding institutional norms, Ningxia will accelerate the formulation of technical guidelines for mining area ecological restoration, implement a green mine list management system, and provide expert assistance to enterprises that fail to meet green mine construction requirements. In terms of surveying mining-damaged land, unified base maps for survey work will be created. By comprehensively utilizing technologies such as remote sensing, surveying, and on-site verification, core information including the location, scope, ownership, and degree of damage to land caused by mining activities like excavation, dumping, and subsidence will be thoroughly investigated. This will lead to the establishment and maintenance of an autonomous region-level mining-damaged land database.
To address prominent issues in the mining sector, the Ningxia Department of Natural Resources will establish lists and rectification records for problems such as illegal exploration and mining, illegal occupation of forests and grasslands, and inadequate ecological restoration. The Ningxia Forestry and Grassland Bureau will comprehensively review issues of illegal occupation of forest and grassland by mines, improve approval mechanisms, and strengthen source control.
According to the 2025 Ecological Environmental Protection Performance Report of the Yinchuan Municipal Bureau of Natural Resources, the main construction of various sub-projects under the Yinchuan section of the Historical Abandoned Mine Ecological Restoration Demonstration Project in the Wind-Sand Area of the Upper Yellow River (central and northern Ningxia) has been largely completed, with over 18,000 mu (approximately 1,200 hectares) of area restored and managed. In 2026, Ningxia will accelerate the construction of this demonstration project, aiming to complete ecological restoration of 60,000 mu (approximately 4,000 hectares) and 400 abandoned mines (mining sites). The approach prioritizes natural restoration supplemented by artificial restoration, aiming to de-list all eligible map polygons from the inventory.
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