01

Healing Earth Scars

Mine park design based on GIS analysis

Acadamic Work

Jijiagou Village, Taiyuan, Shanxi, China

Individual Work

Tutor: Pang Li April 2020

The site locates near Jijiagou Village in Xishan District, Wanbailin District, Taiyuan City, Shanxi Province, covering an area of 396hm2. The ecological problems caused by coal mine goaf in this area are the most prominent. In the regional context of the resource-based regions in Shanxi Province, affected by China's policy of vigorously developing ecological civilization, the Xishan area is facing the need for environmental restoration and scenic spot construction. With people's pursuit of quality of life, suburban parks with a good environment have gradually become the places of leisure and entertainment that people yearn for.

Due to the site's large-scale geographical scope and complex mountainous terrain, to achieve ecological restoration, activation of regional tourism resources, and objective and reasonable regional landscape transformation, this project adopts the GIS to analyze this site. After analyzing the slope, elevation, aspect, and land use of the restricted terrain, it is more reasonable to decide on the landscape reconstruction process of the abandoned coal mine land.

China's coal industry Coal export /Coal import proportion /Coal production and reserves in China

Chinese coal mainly exports to Asian countries such as Japan and Korea.

The source countries of China's coal imports mainly include Indonesia, Australia, Russia, Mongolia, etc

Regarding the distribution and reserves of coal resources, China's regional distribution is highly uneven, mainly distributed in Xinjiang, Inner Mongolia, and Shanxi.

China accounts for 50% of the world's coal consumption.

China accounts for 13.3% of the world’s coal reserves.

Coal production

Coal import

Coal reserves

Coal Emport

Proportion of coal exports to China in 2020

Coal exports to China showed an increasing trend from 2019 to 2020

Coal exports to China showed an decreasing trend from 2019 to 2020

In current situation

China accounts for 51% of the world’s coal production.

50%

13.3%

51%

World Coal Consumption World Coal Reserves World Coal Production

China's oil and natural gas resources are relatively insufficient, with proven oil recoverable reserves accounting for only 2.4% of the world's total and natural gas accounting for 1.2%. In comparison, coal accounts for about 14%. Such resource conditions determine that China's energy structure dominates by coal.

China's coal imports and exports

Before 2007, China imported a small amount of coal and was a coal exporter. Since 2007, China's coal exports have been lower than imports, becoming a coal importer.

China’s energy structure

According to the graphs above, we can see that the leading energy consumed in China is coal.

After 1970, the level of coal mining mechanization in Shanxi improved, and coal production increased.

In 1998, Shanxi adjusted the coal production and transportation order and closed unreasonable coal mines.

After 2000, Shanxi carried out the integration of coal mine resources, and coal production gradually recovered.