In recent years, the natural resources system of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, based on its resource endowment, industrial foundation and geographical advantages, has performed its duties and acted responsibly, paid close attention to key work such as breakthrough in mining, land security and protection of cultivated land, and made more efforts to promote high-quality economic and social development of the autonomous region, so that the north and south Tianshan Mountains have released strong momentum and full of vitality.
Working hard to improve our ability to secure energy and resources
Xinjiang is rich in mineral resources, with full mineral species, wide distribution, high supporting degree and large resource reserves. According to statistics, the autonomous region has discovered a total of 153 kinds of minerals and 103 kinds of minerals with identified resource reserves, accounting for 88% of the discovered minerals and 63% of the identified resource reserves in the country.
"The in-depth implementation of a new round of prospecting breakthrough strategic actions and efforts to enhance energy and resource security capabilities are not only the glorious mission and inevitable requirements of safeguarding national economic security, but also the key support and important starting point for building a modern industrial system with Xinjiang characteristics and achieving catch-up." Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region Department of natural resources Party Group secretary Sun Jizhou said.
In the "14th Five-Year Plan", relying on a new round of mining breakthrough strategic action, Xinjiang focused on the goal of "do everything possible to find large mines, find good mines and find urgently needed mines", established the Strategic Mineral Resources Committee of the Autonomous region, deepened strategic cooperation with the China Geological Survey, continued to increase capital investment in various fields, and set up the country's first market-oriented mineral resources risk exploration fund. A new round of geological prospecting has made breakthroughs.
By 2023, Xinjiang has invested more than 24 billion yuan in exploration funds, coordinated the implementation of more than 1,900 geological exploration projects of various kinds, maintained an increase in the reserves of copper, lead, zinc, cobalt and other mineral resources, and exceeded the "14th Five-Year Plan" prospecting task assigned by the Ministry of Natural Resources for iron, lithium, nickel, fluorite and other minerals. Large super-large deposits such as 10 million ton fluorite ore in Ruoqiang County and 100 million ton vanadium titanium magnetite in Bachu County were newly discovered, and 7 large resource bases were newly formed and 5 large resource bases were consolidated. The autonomous region sold 184 exploration rights at the level, an increase of 172% year-on-year, and the transaction frequency, quantity and amount reached a record high, targeting the supply of mining raw materials to support the development of advantageous industrial clusters.
In late June this year, the promotion meeting of Xinjiang mining rights transfer project was held. This is the largest in Xinjiang history, the launch of the most blocks of a promotion activity, focused on the promotion of mining rights transfer projects 127, more than 310 domestic enterprises attended. "At present, Xinjiang has ushered in an important period of strategic opportunities for the high-quality development of the mining economy, and there is a lot of potential for investment in Xinjiang." Erken Turniyazi, chairman of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region government, said.
"With the new round of mining breakthrough strategic actions, Xinjiang's contribution to ensuring the security of national energy and key mineral resources continues to increase." Sun Jizhou said that Xinjiang has deeply tapped the potential of energy resources with traditional advantages, the main coal producing areas continue to increase production and supply, oil and natural gas increased storage and production, various energy and chemical industry chains continue to extend downward, wind power, photovoltaic and other new energy grid scale continues to expand, silicon, aluminum, titanium and other new materials industry development speed up.
"Energy resources +", so that every lump of coal, every drop of oil, every gas, to play the maximum function and benefit.
The Zhundong coal field in Zhundong Economic and Technological Development Zone of Xinjiang Province is the largest integrated coal field in China. At present, the capacity of the Jundong coal field is about 300 million tons, and will increase to about 500 million tons by the end of the "14th Five-Year Plan". The development zone 5 million tons of coal-to-oil co-production natural gas and chemicals base, 24 billion cubic meters of coal-to-natural gas co-production chemical base is stepping up construction, and supporting 30 million kilowatts of new energy installed capacity.
At the end of March this year, the national energy group Hami Energy Integrated innovation base settled in Barikol Kazakh Autonomous County of Hami City, and the coal-to-oil project launched simultaneously applied the world's leading direct liquefaction technology, and the annual output of oil products will be more than 4 million tons after production. "Thanks to the world-class 'scarce' oil-rich coal, the direct liquefaction rate is second to none in China, and the industry, energy and efficiency can be 'multi-win'." State energy Group Xinjiang Hami Energy Chemical Co., LTD. Deputy general manager Liu Peng said.
In addition, the 10-million-ton Huoyun lead-zinc mine and the million-ton Dahongliutan lithium mine in Xinjiang have entered the stage of mining and industrial supporting construction. The newly discovered oil and natural gas resources in the Tarim and Junggar basins reached 483 million tons and 430 billion cubic meters, respectively.
Xinjiang is striving to build a national energy and resources strategic support base to provide important energy and resources support for promoting Chinese-style modernization.
Continue to raise the supporting level for the land
Xinjiang has a vast territory, and its unused land area ranks first in China. The delineation of "three districts and three lines" frames the "boundaries" of all kinds of construction and development, which puts forward higher requirements for the land element protection work.
In recent years, on the one hand, Xinjiang has focused on the use of territorial space to ensure the demand for development and construction land; On the other hand, we will continue to promote the economical and intensive use of land resources, and make greater efforts to dispose of unused and idle land left over from historical grants.
The Xinjiang Department focused on the "six-fold" list of major projects and major platforms, launched a package of measures such as 9 measures to ensure land use for key projects and 20 measures to ensure land use for the integrated development of rural primary, secondary and tertiary industries, accurately allocated spatial element resources, and followed up to solve the problems of land application and approval across the region. Compiled and printed the pages of "One Map" to understand the whole process of major construction project planning and land use procedures ", "Construction land pre-examination and planning site selection and the standardized list of" at most one Review ", converting the policy provisions into easy-to-understand charts, which are closer to the grassroots reality and convenient for daily operation; The construction project planning site selection and land pre-examination, land approval and planning permit are combined, the frequency of joint examination is encrypted, the review requirements are standardized, and the process is streamlined and optimized, so that the efficiency of construction land approval review has increased by 40%.
In the process of landing the National Energy Group Hami Energy integrated innovation base, natural resources departments at all levels took the initiative to docking, forward service, special affairs, immediate receipt and review, capacity and shortage management, parallel review, and completed all the work of land approval in only 15 days. "The natural resources sector helps us come up with ideas and solutions that are principled but flexible." State energy Group Xinjiang Hami Energy Chemical Co., Ltd. planning development director Duan Guopeng said.
At present, Xinjiang has established a control and supervision system for the use of territorial space to realize system interconnection, business coordination and data sharing at the national, provincial, city and county levels. Since 2023, the system has completed a total of 4,374 land approval and pre-examination business, handled the construction land planning permission, construction project planning permission, village construction planning permission "three certificates" and planning verification business 10,510.
At the same time, under the guidance of the "standard version" of relevant land use policy measures, various parts of Xinjiang have launched an "expanded version" of land element protection according to local conditions.
At the beginning of May this year, Urumqi City's "land supermarket" was officially launched, with the functions of promoting land information, accurate inquiry, policy guidance and so on, and realized the transformation of "passive and other places" to "active selection". The Hui Autonomous Prefecture of Changji has established a linkage and dispatch mechanism at the prefectural and county levels to realize the express and quick approval of land for major construction projects, effectively guaranteeing land for new energy, manufacturing, rural revitalization and other industries, as well as major infrastructure construction such as transportation and water conservancy. The Altai Region has taken the lead in inquiring basic land use information, avoiding permanent basic farmland and ecological protection red lines, and conducting simultaneous review and handling procedures involving forest land, overloading of mineral resources, geological disasters, and land reclamation.
In addition, Xinjiang adheres to the principle of replacing inventory with increment, strictly controls the scale of construction land, strengthens the dynamic inspection of construction project commencement, completion, investment intensity, plot ratio and idle situation, and monitors the whole process of development and utilization of construction land after supply, and tights the two "fences" of land approval and supply. Local governments will tap the potential of land use, strive to reverse the situation of extensive land use with more grants and less grants, speed up the disposal of unused and idle land left over from historical grants, and promote the economical and intensive use of land.
"Adhere to the principle of factors first, services first, scientific arrangements for the annual plan of land use indicators, so that major projects should be fully guaranteed land." The person in charge of the Territorial Space Use Control Department of the New Territory Department said that next, joint approval and other ways will be adopted for the construction land needs of energy and chemical bases to ensure compliance with control regulations and standardized and efficient approval.
Effectively safeguard the "lifeblood" of food production
By the end of 2023, Xinjiang (including the XPCC) had 101.2663 million mu of cultivated land and 82.2631 million mu of designated permanent basic farmland, making it one of the nine provinces and regions in China that have overfulfilled the task of protecting national cultivated land.
In recent years, Xinjiang has resolutely implemented the strictest cultivated land protection system, firmly adhered to the red line of cultivated land protection with "long teeth" hard measures, coordinated reserve cultivated land resources in light of actual conditions, promoted the replacement of cultivated land index transactions, strong legislation and strict law enforcement, ensured that the quantity of cultivated land is not reduced and the quality is stable, and adopted multiple measures to "store grain in the land" to effectively safeguard the "lifeblood" of grain production.
The revised Measures for the Implementation of the Land Administration Law of the People's Republic of China in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region in 2022 elevated the hard measures for the implementation of the "long teeth" of cultivated land protection to the legal level, making it clear that governments at all levels have the overall responsibility for the protection of cultivated land in the region, and provide special protection for permanent basic farmland. In March this year, the Measures for the Grid Supervision and Management of Cultivated Land Protection in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region were issued, emphasizing the principle of "territorial management, hierarchical responsibility, comprehensive coverage, and responsibility to people", and implementing the grid supervision mechanism for cultivated land protection at five levels: autonomous region, prefecture (prefecture, city), county (city, district), township (town), and village.
Bayingoleng Mongolian Autonomous Prefecture Bohu County has become one of the first natural resource conservation and intensive demonstration counties (cities), county Party secretary Li Hua said, to strictly compact management responsibilities, to ensure that cultivated land, especially permanent basic farmland protection area, location, identification, archives, responsibility "five implementation", effectively guard the county 352,800 acres of arable land.
In the face of the growing demand for construction land, Xinjiang has established and improved the supervision system for the whole process of supplementary cultivated land, carried out solid and standardized field survey and demonstration of arable land occupied by construction, strictly implemented the system of balance of farmland occupied by non-agricultural construction and compensation, strictly controlled farmland occupied by non-agricultural construction and converted farmland to other agricultural land, and froze the same amount of supplementary farmland indicators of farmland occupied by illegal construction.
All localities will steadily promote the annual "balance between the transfer of cultivated land to other agricultural land and land used for agricultural facilities construction," step up efforts to upgrade medium - and low-yielding land, and ensure that long-term stable use of cultivated land will not decrease. We will explore pilot projects to carry out comprehensive land improvement in towns and townships, solve the problem of fragmentation of cultivated land and construction land, and make the spatial distribution of agricultural production more consistent with the natural geographical pattern and the laws of agricultural production.
On this basis, Xinjiang resolutely curbed the "non-agricultural conversion" of cultivated land, strictly controlled the "non-grain conversion", accelerated the reform of the system of balanced cultivation of cultivated land, promoted the priority of cultivated land utilization, ensured that cultivated land was mainly used for grain and agricultural products such as cotton, oil, sugar, and vegetables, and permanent basic farmland was mainly used for grain production, guided the forest and fruit industry to "go up the hill" and not "compete" with grain rations. At the same time, we will strictly assess the cultivated land protection and food security responsibility system, give economic rewards to the land (state and city) that exceeds the cultivated land protection task, and implement "one-vote veto" for those that break the red line of cultivated land. We will speed up reform of the system for balancing the use and compensation of cultivated land, promote the development of reserve cultivated land resources in an orderly manner, and strengthen the review and oversight of the development of unused state-owned land.
"In the next step, we will vigorously carry out the investigation and uation of cultivated land reserve resources, promote the formulation of Xinjiang's cultivated land reserve resources development and utilization plan, clarify the development nodes, spatial plots and other elements, and ensure that the new cultivated land is worthy of its name and can be used statically for a long time through county-level verification, prefecture level verification and autonomous region level review." The head of the cultivated land protection supervision department of the New Territory said.
According to the National Bureau of Statistics, Xinjiang's total grain output in 2023 will be 42.384 billion jin, an increase of 6.113 billion jin year-on-year, ranking first in the country. The sown area was 42.3715 million mu, an increase of 5.8635 million mu year-on-year, ranking first in the country in the increment of sown area.
When granaries are abundant, the world is secure. Xinjiang is becoming an important granary of China.
