Construction work has begun or will soon begin on six billion-level production capacity including Majialiang, Fengyu and Dongzhouyao, and five over-five-million-level production capacity including Youyu Tiefeng, Wangping Xiaoyu and Jingle Niuni.

In addition, the production cycle of the small and medium-sized coalmines has increased 50 percent on average, with production capacity growing to 4 million tons from 2001 to 2005.

Datong Coal received 14 national awards, 6 provincial ones, and 5 municipal ones for its technological improvements. This was in sharp contrast to its ninth Five-Year-Plan performance, both in the number and the level of the awards.

Safety is another major concern and the company has a Health and Safety Management System and has spent more to make its infrastructure secure.

By the end of the tenth Five-Year-Plan, the fatality rate per million tons of coal production has been reduced to under 0.19, from 0.33 in the ninth Five-Year-Plan period.

Staff members' wages increased, too, growing 28 percent annually on average, or three times the rate of 2000. By the end of 2005, staff members' annual income reached 24, 496 yuan.

Staff housing also grew 200,000 sq m annually and each staff member at the headquarters has 13.3 sq m of housing on average.

At the same time, there were obvious environmental improvements in the mine area, with more than 110 recreation areas, parks and green areas. The forestry rate is above 20 percent.

Datong Coal spent 30.48 million yuan from 2001 to 2005 solving its wastewater, smoke, dust, and other pollution problems, and by the end of that period, dust and sulfur dioxide emissions were down 14.9 and 31.9 percent respectively, from 2000 levels.

(China Daily 11/16/2010 page7)