On November 11th, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Natural Resources, the Ministry of Ecology and Environment, the Ministry of Housing and Urban Rural Development, the Ministry of Transport, the Ministry of Water Resources, the Ministry of Emergency Management, the State Administration for Market Regulation, and China Railway Group jointly issued the "Several Opinions on Promoting High Quality Development of the Mechanism Sand and Gravel Industry".
The Opinion points out that construction sand and gravel are key raw materials for building concrete skeletons, and are bulk building materials that consume a large amount of natural resources. They have gradually become the main source of construction sand and gravel in China. At present, the production of mechanism sand and gravel has gradually transformed from simple and scattered manual or semi mechanical workshops to standardized and large-scale factories. However, the mechanism sand and gravel industry still faces prominent problems such as weak quality assurance capabilities, unreasonable industrial structure, low level of green development, and local supply-demand imbalance.

The Age of Mining is Coming
The Opinion requires the formation of a relatively complete and reasonable mechanism sand and gravel supply guarantee system by 2025, with a significant increase in the proportion of high-quality mechanism sand and gravel represented by Class I products. The production capacity of ultra large mechanism sand and gravel enterprises with an annual output of 10 million tons or more should reach 40%, and the proportion of mechanism sand and gravel produced using tailings, waste stones, construction waste, etc. should be significantly increased. More than 100 intelligent, green, high-quality, and well managed enterprises should be cultivated.
Scientific layout to prevent overcapacity
The Opinion requires scientific planning, rational layout, and the establishment of a reasonable domestic mechanism for sand and gravel supply system, which not only guarantees supply but also prevents; Rushing forward in one fell swoop; Causing overcapacity.
According to the important urban agglomerations such as Beijing Tianjin Hebei and its surrounding areas, the Yangtze River Delta, and the Pearl River Delta, as well as the construction needs of the central and western regions, we will reasonably allocate mining rights for sand and gravel resources and support the accelerated construction of large-scale projects. While balancing local planning, each province should strengthen its linkage with other provinces.
Promote the connection between areas with abundant sand and gravel resources and areas with high demand such as Guizhou, Anhui, Jiangxi, Hunan, Guangxi, and Hebei, adapt to the characteristics of bulk sand and gravel materials, and lay out a number of super large enterprises along the main transportation channels to form several large-scale production bases. Reasonable layout of city and county areas to serve local sand and gravel processing bases or distribution centers.
Comprehensive promotion of sand and gravel mine remediation
The Opinion requires that for mines currently being mined, it is necessary to adhere to the principle of; Mining and management at the same time; principle. Mines that violate resource and environmental laws and regulations, planning, pollute the environment, damage the ecology, engage in indiscriminate mining, or operate without permits shall be shut down or closed in accordance with the law, and their responsibilities for damaging the ecological environment shall be pursued. For abandoned mines, we will increase efforts to improve and restore the mining environment, and strictly prohibit new mining and ecological damage under the guise of remediation projects.
The merger and reorganization of sand and gravel, as well as the gathering of industries, have opened the curtain.
The Opinion encourages enterprises to use resources, capital, technology, brand, market and other links to implement mergers and acquisitions through market-oriented and legal means, reduce and transform inefficient production capacity of sand and gravel, and enhance industrial concentration. Cultivate and build a cross regional sand and gravel enterprise group with advanced management, sophisticated equipment, reliable quality, intrinsic safety, beautiful environment, and outstanding brand.
The Opinion requires promoting the scale and intensification of mechanism sand and gravel production, and building a number of large-scale production bases. Encourage the development of integrated industrial parks for sand and gravel, cement, concrete, and prefabricated buildings, encourage sand and gravel enterprises to extend their industrial chains downstream, and develop industries such as ready mixed mortar, block wall materials, and comprehensive resource utilization.

Rise of Sand and Stone E-commerce
The Opinion requires development; Internet plus sand aggregate” Build a mechanism for sand and gravel e-commerce platform, improve the supporting service system, cultivate O2O, C2B and other e-commerce models suitable for the sand and gravel industry, and realize functions such as information exchange, market transactions, logistics distribution, payment settlement, and after-sales service in sand and gravel e-commerce transactions.
Green and safety are equally important
The Opinion requires that mechanism sand and gravel enterprises build green mines in accordance with relevant regulations, install pollution prevention and control facilities such as dust suppression and collection, water treatment, and noise reduction, as well as water and soil conservation facilities. They should strengthen the recycling and reuse of process wastewater, fine powder, and sediment slurry, encourage the use of associated stone powder in the production process to produce green building materials, and achieve near zero emissions.
Sand and gravel enterprises should establish and improve a system of full staff safety production responsibility and safety management regulations, and promote the standardization of enterprise safety production. Strictly implement safety production and occupational health; Three simultaneities; Establish a system to improve safety risk control and occupational disease prevention measures for processes such as mining, stone handling and crushing, material screening and transportation.
Belt corridors, water transportation, and railway transportation welcome great development
The Opinion requires promoting the long-distance transportation of mechanism sand and gravel; Rotating iron, rotating water; Improve the construction of inland water transportation network and port collection and distribution system. For mechanism sand and gravel enterprises with an annual transportation capacity of over 1.5 million tons, railway dedicated lines should be constructed in accordance with regulations.
Orderly development of multimodal transportation, strengthening the effective connection between different transportation modes, vigorously developing container rail road intermodal transportation, and effectively improving the transportation capacity of mechanism sand and gravel. Accelerate the construction of enclosed conveyor belt corridors and gradually reduce the amount of open loading and unloading of bulk cargo. Utilize information technology to achieve full process supervision of sand and gravel transportation, and build green logistics and supply chains. Strengthen the inspection of transportation vehicles to prevent overloaded vehicles from leaving the station and driving on the road.
Encourage the utilization of waste rock and tailings
The Opinion encourages the use of waste rock and tailings from iron, molybdenum, vanadium, titanium and other mines to produce mechanism sand and gravel, save natural resources, and improve the comprehensive utilization level of industrial solid waste. Encourage the production of sand and gravel products that meet the needs of sponge city construction based on the high water absorption rate of construction waste. Support the use of local materials and the production mechanism of sand and gravel from construction projects such as mountain excavation, roads, tunnels, and site leveling to reduce long-distance transportation of foreign sand and gravel and meet construction needs.

Advocate for the production of high-quality sand and gravel
The Opinion requires promoting close connection between mechanism sand and gravel enterprises and downstream users, accelerating the development of high-quality mechanism sand and gravel for key projects such as railways, nuclear power, and water conservancy, as well as special sand and gravel products such as airport runways, marine engineering, sewage treatment, and wear-resistant flooring.
At the same time, encourage enterprises to establish testing centers, implement graded utilization based on raw material quality, and achieve high-quality and optimal use. Strengthen the quality monitoring and control capabilities of raw materials, and strictly control the content of harmful impurities. Encourage enterprises to establish product quality traceability systems and product quality file systems. The competent department shall strengthen the supervision and inspection of sand and gravel in production, circulation, and use, and investigate and punish counterfeit and inferior products in accordance with the law.
Promote intelligent manufacturing of sand and gravel
The Opinions require promoting the application of big data, artificial intelligence, industrial Internet, etc. in the mechanism sand and gravel industry, and improving the level of automation, intelligence, and networking. Build a digital and flexible intelligent factory that integrates ore crushing, dust collection, wastewater treatment, material storage and transportation, intelligent monitoring, and environmental detection.

Optimize the sand and gravel business environment
The Opinion requires optimizing the development environment, strengthening the monitoring and analysis of the operation of the sand and gravel industry, and publishing industry development reports. Give full play to the role of industry intermediaries and provide services; The Belt and Road” Construct, promote international exchange and cooperation, and guide the technology and equipment of the sand and gravel industry to go global.
At the same time, we will strengthen policy linkage, carry out joint law enforcement, create an environment conducive to the healthy and sustainable development of the mechanism sand and gravel industry according to local conditions, promote industrial transformation and upgrading, and promote high-quality development of the industry.
The Opinion puts forward overall requirements for the high-quality development of sand and gravel, aiming to enhance the supply capacity of high-quality sand and gravel, strengthen technological innovation, improve product quality assurance capabilities, implement intelligent transformation, use advanced and applicable technologies to change the industry's appearance, promote joint restructuring, optimize industrial structure, continuously improve green development and intrinsic safety level, achieve industrial modernization, intensification, scale, standardization, and ecologicalization, and guide the high-quality development of the mechanism sand and gravel industry.
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