23 new policies to boost the sand and gravel industry, encourage the use of soli

Guidance on promoting the healthy and orderly development of the sand and gravel industry



Sand and gravel is the most basic and indispensable construction materials in engineering construction. For a long time, sand and gravel is mainly supplied by the regional market in the vicinity, the overall supply and demand in a balanced state, the price remains basically stable. After years of large-scale mining, natural sand and gravel resources gradually reduced, in recent years, the amount of sand from the main domestic rivers has dropped significantly, coupled with the lack of awareness of the basic importance of sand and gravel in some places, the industry rectification work is simple and sloppy, not well coordinated "block the back door" and "open the front door "The relationship between the number of enterprises production significantly reduced, resulting in regional short-term imbalance between supply and demand, prices rose sharply, low-quality sand and gravel into the market, increasing infrastructure investment and major project construction costs at the same time, affecting the progress of construction and bring quality and safety risks, the urgent need to take measures to properly address. To stabilize the supply of sand and gravel market, to maintain overall stable prices, and promote the healthy and orderly development of the industry, agreed by the State Council, the following views are presented.

First, the overall requirements

Firmly establish and resolutely practice the new development concept, give full play to the decisive role of the market in the allocation of resources, better play the role of the government, and effectively implement the main responsibility of the local government, adhere to the first established and then broken, accelerate the "open the front door" and resolutely "block the back door" and pay attention to comprehensive measures, multiple measures, reasonable control of river and lake sand mining, and gradually enhance the mechanism of sand and gravel and other alternative sources of sand utilization ratio, optimize the production and marketing layout, accelerate the construction of regional supply and demand balance, reasonable prices, green and environmentally friendly, high-quality and efficient sand and gravel industry system, for infrastructure investment construction and smooth economic operation to provide strong support.

Second, to promote the high-quality development of the mechanism sand and gravel industry

(A) vigorously develop and promote the application of mechanism sand and gravel. Accelerate the implementation of "several opinions on promoting the high-quality development of the mechanism sand and gravel industry" (Ministry of Industry and Information Lianyuan [2019] No. 239), take into account the overall development trend of various types of sand and gravel resources, gradually transition to rely on mechanism sand and gravel to meet construction needs mainly, strengthen the linkage in the planning and layout, process equipment, product quality, pollution prevention, comprehensive utilization, safety production, etc., and accelerate the promotion of mechanism sand and gravel industry Transformation and upgrading. (Provincial People's Government, Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, Development and Reform Commission, Ministry of Natural Resources, Ministry of Ecology and Environment, Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, Ministry of Transport, Ministry of Water Resources, Ministry of Emergency Response, General Administration of Market Regulation, China National Railway Group Co. (Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, Ministry of Transport, Ministry of Water Resources, General Administration of Market Regulation, China State Railway Group Corporation)

(B) optimize the mechanism of sand and gravel development layout. Coordinate resource endowment, economic transportation radius, regional supply and demand balance and other factors, actively and orderly placement of sand and gravel mining rights, support Beijing, Tianjin, Hebei and surrounding, the Yangtze River Delta and other key regions to place large sand and gravel mining rights. While guiding small and medium-sized sand and gravel enterprises to comply with production, through market-based approach to achieve intensive, large-scale mining of sand and gravel mining resources, the construction of green mines. (Provincial People's Government, Ministry of Natural Resources, Development and Reform Commission, Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, Ministry of Transport, Ministry of Water Resources, China National Railways Group Corporation) Strengthen the connection between resource-rich areas and high-demand areas, lay out a number of 10 million tons of large-scale mechanism sand and gravel production base along the main transport corridors to strengthen the supply of key areas. Guide joint restructuring, promote industrial clustering, construction of production bases and processing and distribution centers, improve the loading and unloading of materials, reduce backloading, and effectively change the "small, scattered, chaotic" situation. (Provincial People's Government, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, Development and Reform Commission, Ministry of Natural Resources, Ministry of Transport, China National Railways Group Corporation)

(C) accelerate the formation of high-quality production capacity of mechanism sand and gravel. Strengthen the land, mines, logistics and other factors to ensure that the project procedures to speed up. Guide all kinds of funds to support the construction of backbone projects, to promote large-scale under construction, proposed mechanism sand and gravel projects as soon as possible to put into production, increase the supply capacity of high-quality sand and gravel. (Provincial People's Government, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, Development and Reform Commission, Ministry of Natural Resources, Ministry of Ecology and Environment, Ministry of Transport, China National Railways Group Co., Ltd.) for eligible sand and gravel mining rights have been set up to support and guide the local law to renew registration, and promote the resumption of normal production as soon as possible. Encourage the temporary failure to meet the relevant requirements of the plant and mine to upgrade and improve the necessary facilities and equipment, with the conditions to resume production as soon as possible. (Provincial People's Government, Ministry of Natural Resources, Ministry of Ecology and Environment, Ministry of Water Resources, Ministry of Emergency Response)

(D) reduce transport costs. Promote the long-distance transport of sand and gravel "public to rail, public to water", reduce the amount of road transport, increase the amount of rail transport, improve the construction of inland water transport network and port collection and distribution system, and strengthen the effective connection between different modes of transport. Promote the construction of special railroad lines, the annual volume of 1.5 million tons of sand and gravel enterprises, should be required to build special railroad lines. (Provincial People's Government, the Ministry of Transport, China National Railway Group Co.

Third, strengthen the comprehensive improvement and use of sand mining in rivers

(E) strengthen the comprehensive management of illegal sand mining. Strengthen the entire sand industry, the whole process of supervision, early detection of problems and hidden dangers, improve the management system norms. Sand mining without a permit, not according to the permit requirements of sand mining and other illegal sand mining behavior, to maintain a high-pressure situation, strengthen the connection between the executive and the criminal, and increase efforts to combat. Strictly control sand mining activities in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, strictly prevent the rebound of illegal sand mining in the river, maintain the order of sand mining in the Yangtze River, to ensure the health of the Yangtze River. (Provincial People's Government, the Ministry of Water Resources, Ministry of Public Security, Ministry of Ecology and Environment, Ministry of Transport)

(F) reasonable development and utilization of river gravel resources. Strengthen industry guidance, accelerate the preparation of river sand mining planning, in the protection of flood control, ecology, navigation safety, the premise of a reasonable determination of the mineable area, the mineable period, the mineable amount, encourage and support the unified mining management of river sand, and promote intensive, large-scale mining. As soon as possible to clean up the unreasonable no-mining area and no-mining period, adjust the unrealistic unilateral expansion of the set no-mining area, correct the "one-size-fits-all" approach without legal basis to implement a long-term year-round ban on mining. (Provincial People's Government, the Ministry of Water Resources, Ministry of Ecology and Environment, Ministry of Transport)

(G) increase the use of river channel dredging sand. Timely summary to promote the comprehensive utilization of river channel dredging sand pilot experience, promote the combination of river sand mining and river governance, the establishment of a comprehensive utilization of dredged sand mechanism to promote the use of dredged sand. (The provincial people's governments, the Ministry of Water Resources, Ministry of Transport)

(H) explore the promotion of the Three Gorges reservoir area and other silt sand mining utilization. Strengthen the ecological protection constraints, strengthen the top-level design, accelerate the exploration of the Three Gorges reservoir area and other comprehensive utilization of reservoir silt sand pilot, and strive to increase the supply of resources. (The provincial people's governments, the Ministry of Water Resources, Ministry of Transport)

Fourth, gradually and orderly promote the use of sea sand mining

(ix) reasonable mining of marine sand resources. The full implementation of the sea sand mining rights and sea use rights joint bidding auction listing, optimize the transfer links and workflow. Establish and improve the long-term mechanism for the management of sea sand mining. (Relevant provincial people's governments, the Ministry of Natural Resources)

(J) strictly regulate the use of sea sand. Strictly implement the use of sea sand standards to ensure that the quality of sea sand in line with the use of requirements. Strictly control the scope of the use of sea sand, construction projects are strictly prohibited from using sea sand in violation of the standard specification requirements. (Relevant provincial people's governments, the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, the Ministry of Transport, the Ministry of Water Resources, the General Administration of Market Regulation, China State Railway Group Corporation)

Five, actively promote the use of alternative sources of sand

(k) support the comprehensive utilization of waste rock tailings. In line with the premise of safety, ecological and environmental protection requirements, encourage and support the comprehensive use of waste rock, slag and tailings and other sand and gravel resources to achieve "waste to treasure. (Provincial People's Government, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, Ministry of Natural Resources, Ministry of Ecology and Environment, Ministry of Emergency Response)

(XII) encourage the use of solid waste resources to manufacture recycled sand and gravel. Encourage the use of construction and demolition waste and other solid waste resources to produce sand and gravel alternative materials, clean up unreasonable regional restrictions to increase the supply of recycled sand and gravel. (Provincial People's Government, the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, Development and Reform Commission, Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, Ministry of Ecology and Environment)

(XIII) to promote the use of engineering construction of quarried sand and gravel coordination. The approved establishment of engineering and construction projects and the overall restoration area in accordance with the ecological restoration program to implement the restoration project, in the scope of construction and construction of sand and gravel excavated during the project, in addition to the project for its own use, the excess is allowed to sell to the public in accordance with the law. (Provincial People's Government, the Ministry of Natural Resources, Ministry of Transport, Ministry of Water Resources)

(XIV) actively promote the steel structure assembly building. Gradually increase the proportion of steel assembly-type buildings in schools, hospitals, office buildings, office buildings and other public buildings, and steadily promote the application of steel assembly-type buildings in the construction of urban residential and agricultural housing. (Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, Development and Reform Commission, Ministry of Industry and Information Technology)

Sixth, further compacting local responsibility

(xv) clear responsibility subjects. All localities should implement local management responsibilities, establish a coordination mechanism, clarify the lead responsible units, strengthen departmental collaboration, and do a good job to promote production, supply, stable prices, strong supervision and other work to protect the construction and people's livelihood needs. (The provincial people's governments)

(XVI) to ensure that key projects need. Tight market supply, price increases in the region, to target the development of emergency supply program, and effectively take effective measures to strengthen the coordination of sources and transportation scheduling, to ensure that the construction of key projects are not affected. (The provincial people's governments)

(XVII) effectively protect the emergency sand and gravel for flood control. For flood control and other emergency gravel, according to the need to establish an emergency mining mechanism, the development of emergency programs, in strict implementation of the program requirements, the implementation of sand dedicated to the premise of the local government to coordinate the start of emergency mining and security supply. (The provincial people's governments)

(18) to create a good environment. Promote the relevant areas of "management and service" reform, simplify the application information elements, optimize the workflow, improve efficiency. (Provincial People's Government) adhere to the same treatment, and actively attract social capital to enter, allowing and supporting private enterprises to enter the sand and gravel mining, river sand mining, sea sand mining and other industries on an equal footing, to protect the legitimate rights and interests of private sand and gravel production enterprises. (Provincial People's Government, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, Ministry of Natural Resources, Ministry of Water Resources)

Seven, to further strengthen market supervision

(XIX) severely investigate and deal with illegal and irregular behavior. Combined with the special struggle against black, illegal mining, illegal mining, illegal production, pollution and damage to the environment, forgery and adulteration and other illegal and illegal behavior, as well as the construction of illegal use of sea sand behavior, and strictly investigate the relevant units and individuals responsible. The implementation of the Yangtze River mining and transport management "four linked" system, according to the law to investigate and deal with the "three no" sand mining vessels and illegal modification, disguise, hidden sand mining equipment ships. (The provincial people's governments, the Ministry of Public Security, Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, Ministry of Natural Resources, Ministry of Ecology and Environment, Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, Ministry of Transport, Ministry of Water Resources, General Administration of Market Regulation, China Marine Police Bureau)

(xx) regulate the market order. Comprehensively strengthen the quality of sand and gravel sampling supervision efforts. (Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, the General Administration of Market Regulation in accordance with their respective functions are jointly responsible for) crack down on collusion, manipulation of market prices, price gouging and unfair competition and other illegal and unlawful behavior, regulate the market and price order. (General Administration of Market Supervision)

(xxi) strengthen import and export management. Strictly control the export of sand and gravel, and reasonably guide market players to expand the scale of sand and gravel imports. (Ministry of Commerce)

Eight, establish and improve the working mechanism

(xxii) the establishment of departmental work coordination mechanism. Strengthen departmental linkage, the formation of synergies, the establishment of sand and gravel to ensure the stability of the work of the coordination mechanism to strengthen the work of guidance, regular meetings to study related issues. (Development and Reform Commission with the relevant departments)

(xxiii) strengthen monitoring and early warning and information dissemination. Strengthen the sand and gravel market supply and price monitoring and forecasting early warning, timely analysis and judgment of changes in market supply and demand, every two months to dispatch a national sand and gravel supply and demand situation. Timely release of sand and gravel market information, and actively guide market players to respond early and stabilize market expectations. (Development and Reform Commission with the relevant departments) each region to further raise awareness, the effective implementation of the main responsibility to do a good job of sand and gravel to ensure stable prices, and promote the healthy and orderly development of the industry on the important agenda, and urgently establish a working mechanism to develop implementation plans, and pay close attention to the implementation of the work. Relevant functional departments should strengthen policy coordination, strengthen work guidance, and actively promote the high-quality development of the industry. At present, to do a good job in the scientific prevention and control of the new crown pneumonia epidemic premise, combined with the orderly resumption of engineering projects and production progress, and effectively protect the supply of sand and gravel market and the basic stability of prices.