Shanmei Group: Promoting the High-quality Development of Coal Sector
Via Innovat

On the morning of July 28, the media group of the 5th "Voice of Shaanxi, Via Which We Communicate with the World" theme publicity campaign came to Shaanxi Coal and Chemical Industry Group Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Shanmei Group") to spotlight the successful exploration of Shanmei Group in the reform, transformation and development.

The data showed that during the "13th Five-Year Plan" period, the economic aggregate and development quality of Shanmei Group reached a new level. The total assets increased from 437.1 billion yuan to 590 billion yuan, the sales revenue increased from 190.6 billion yuan to 340.3 billion yuan, the total profit increased from 52.69 million yuan to 17.5 billion yuan, the accumulated taxes paid were 93.6 billion yuan, and the investment in major construction projects was 157.2 billion yuan, realizing the high quality development of the traditional industry.

Among them, the coal sector in Shanmei Group has implemented innovative ideas and bold reform, thereby yielding a total coal output of 762 million tons, an increase of 54.7%. The operating revenue increased from 39.8 billion yuan to 76 billion yuan. The profit increased from a loss of 2.4 billion yuanto a profit of 22.5 billion yuan. And the efficiency of all employees increased by 72.3%.

According to Zhu Zhi'an, Director of the Coal Division Office of Shanmei Group, the high-quality development of Shanmei Group has benefited from the company's active promotion of the supply-side structural reform of the coal industry. It is the first in China to have cut the overcapacity to release superior production capacity. Through actively eliminating backward production capacity of 18.15 million tons, and increasing high-quality production capacity of 60 million tons, the Group's high-quality coal production capacity has accounted for 95%, making the coal sector obtain a good lead in the country.

In order to ensure safe production, Shanmei Group has constructed and put into use 39 intelligent coal mining platforms, 26 sets of rapid tunneling systems, 792 centralized control production auxiliary systems, and 97 mining robots. More than 73% of coal mining platforms have realized intelligent mining, and all underground fixed places have realized "unattended operation and intelligent inspection".

In addition, Shanmei Group has innovated its business model and launched the "Westcoal" coal trading and e-commerce platform in 2016. Since then, it has continuously leveraged the application of "Internet plus" and "5G" scenario technologies to build an industrial Internet innovation ecology and create a number of special funds for industrial transformation and upgrading to support demonstration projects. (Liu Bin)