Shenhua Shendong Mining Environment Construction And Ecological Protection Test Studies

Shendong Coal Branch belongs to one of the eight large coal fields all over the world, which is located at hill & gulch area on the Loess Plateau on the middle reaches of the Yellow River and the transition zone of Mu Us Shadi among Yulin, Shanxi Province and south area of Erdos, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, all its unfavorable natural conditions, the lack of rain, scarce vegetation and violent sandstorm damage aggravated the serious of soil erosion. Since development of Shendong Coal Branch, we have paid much attention to the protection of environment and adopted a series of measures to improve ecological environment of coal field in a planned way and has made successful experiences in terms of wind protection & sand bind, erosion control and industrial pollution control, etc. through years of hard work and experimental investigation; we has efficiently accomplished control of sandy wind erosion in coal field amounting to 145 km~2, control of scarce vegetation amounting from 14% to 39%, vegetation plant cover rate in key control areas accounting for 65% above and input of ecological capital accumulating to RMB 150 million.The Environment of Shendong Coal Branch is fragile, in addition to influence of coal & mining, ecological control of coal field is not only simply to plant trees & grasses, agricultural measures could no longer settle down essential problems, we must carry out a large amount of scientific experiment to do such jobs in view of ecological environment characteristics: firstly, to control in mined goaf; secondly, to control in reclamation field of open pit; thirdly, to experimental investigation in terms of pollution prevention, to improve theory system of ecological environment building of coal fields on the ground of experience conclusion.Investigation on environment construction and ecological protection of Shendong Coal Branch would supply demonstration and reference functions for developing western region, promoting environment control and resource development in the same type of area of the world and going the way of sustainable development.