Inner Mongolia coal market rush to transport coal with high fever

Mr. Liu, who specializes in coal foreign trade business in Ordos City, arrived at the Hohhot Railway Bureau early in the morning on April 16. He has applied to the Hohhot Railway Bureau for the wagon quota for transporting coal from Zhungeer three times. "After the opening of Huzhun Railway, the cost of transporting coal from Huzhun Railway is low and the speed is fast, but it is too difficult to apply for approval of wagon indicators," Mr. Liu said. Huzhun railway transport management is almost exclusively for special vehicles, and other unplanned wagons want to get in, which is even more difficult than climbing the sky.

According to the introduction, in the first quarter of 2007, with the re-warming of macroeconomic concerns, the industry once again questioned the price of coal, electricity, transportation and other corresponding areas and the control under the guidance of policies. In fact, since last year, Inner Mongolia has never stopped disputes over the economic base industries of coal, electricity and transportation.

When will the rush stop

At present, affected by the binding behavior of "three responsibilities" of production retention, environmental protection and effective utilization of coal enterprises in Shanxi Province, especially the increase of production retention, in some resource areas of Inner Mongolia, some small coal mines that have been ordered to close are still looking for various reasons to rush to transport coal. Group enterprises are rushing to increase raw coal production before the introduction of the new policy, so that all coal enterprises are rushing to dig coal before the actual implementation of the new policy.

As one of the shareholders of Huzhun Railway Co., Ltd., Ordos Yitai Group is in the right place at the right time to transport coal by railway. A person in charge of the group said that although the rush was coal, the real cause of the rush was electricity. At the end of March, a report by the Inner Mongolia Development and Reform Commission said that power plants were affected by the reduction of production by major coal enterprises, and coal stocks were frequently in short supply. The shortage of coal supply makes some coal production enterprises ignore the rigid constraints of the policy and wait for the opportunity to rush to transport coal.

Since the beginning of spring, on some special roads for coal transportation, we can often see long lines of coal transportation vehicles. Coal transportation has achieved another round of rush transportation peak of "meeting the peak in summer" to ease the shortage of coal for electric power.

a person in charge of the coal administration Bureau of Zhungeer Banner in Ordos City said that in order to alleviate the contradiction between supply and demand, a series of sequelae caused by the rush to transport coal were embarrassing. Data show that hundreds of millions of tons of coal are transported by railway and highway in Ordos every year, and about 10000 wagons are applied for railway transportation every day. Individual coal enterprises unite to rush to transport coal in six ways. In this situation, it is difficult to forcibly control the "rush transportation" of high fever by means of administrative compulsory orders alone.

Industry analysts said that the rush was mainly caused by the rise in coal prices. At present, the retention of coal enterprises in Inner Mongolia is not as much as that of coal enterprises in Shanxi Province, but the retention of coal production covering environmental protection and immigration compensation will spread to Inner Mongolia sooner or later. Under such circumstances, the rush will naturally take place.

Prices cannot be regulated

On the basis of the electricity price and railway freight rate determined by the state, the biggest "profit point" for the export of coal is the price of coal itself. The price of unplanned coal has been soaring in recent years, while the production additional retention of coal enterprises is still following the past way, low retention makes coal production enterprises produce huge profits. The price of coal is rising with the development of economy and the shortage of power supply. The changing price of coal often makes many coal production enterprises concentrate on one stage, that is, when the profit is relatively large, they begin to rush to transport coal.

The price difference between the price of thermal coal and the coal market is indeed increasing year by year. An expert from the Inner Mongolia Economic and Social Information Research Center said that the market price of coal has risen from 280 yuan per ton in the same period last year to more than 300 yuan at present, which has caused some coal enterprises to start excessive excavation before the completion of technological transformation. Coal grabbing has become a strange circle in the economic life of Ordos City.

Coal prices continue to rise and the lack of regulation makes the process of merging coal companies difficult and lengthy. At present, the reason why small and medium-sized enterprises are reluctant to sell their resources easily is that they are driven by the interests in the price cycle.

Jiang Yuezhong, director of the Economic Research Institute of the Inner Mongolia Academy of Social Sciences, believes that the coal market is a competitive market. In the face of monopoly price sectors such as electricity and transportation, the profits of the coal industry are almost increasing geometrically. From the perspective of market economy, the price of competitive market is liberalized, and the market price control under natural monopoly and administrative monopoly is very strict. Strictly speaking, "rush transportation" is not a problem of resource structure, nor a problem of contradiction between supply and demand, but a problem of price out of control.

At present, due to the rising trend of rush transportation in the coal market, the price of coal has risen by nearly 10%, and many policies ordering the closure of small coal mines can not be implemented. A person in charge of a coal enterprise in Ejin Horo Banner, Ordos City, claimed that once the government increases the retention of coal production enterprises and controls the planned output, coal production enterprises will enter a long "hibernation period", and now is the best time for "rush transportation". The same is investment expansion, why not put limited funds into the blade of coal rush transportation? But if all coal enterprises hold this view, when can we stop the rush to transport coal in violation of regulations.

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