写在2016（第十八届）中国国际矿业大会开幕之际

2016中国国际矿业大会9月23日至25日在天津梅江会展中心隆重举行。我们对这次盛会如期举行表示衷心祝贺！预祝会议取得圆满成功！

经过多年的积累与完善，中国国际矿业大会已经成为来自世界各国政府官员、行业领袖、专家学者及广大矿业界的代表，就矿业政策、矿业法规、矿产资源形势、矿产品市场、矿业投资与金融资本市场、环境保护与绿色矿山建设、矿业科技创新与新理论新技术新装备以及矿业未来发展趋势等进行研讨、交流的平台，也已成为洞察世界矿业发展的风向标与晴雨表。

算上本次会议，这个国际性的矿业大会已经成功举行了十八届。十八，意味着会议已经步入成年。在中国的很多地方，“十八”还被认为是一个预示着“兴旺发达”的吉祥数字。借助着这样一个美好的心愿，我们期待，这次会议会有不同寻常的精彩呈现。

矿业已成为全球化程度最深的产业之一，正在越来越紧密地结成一个命运共同体。回眸过去的一年，在全球经济形势依旧低迷、矿业行情尚未走出低谷的情况下，各国矿业行业深刻认识到“一荣俱荣、一损俱损”的现实，抱团取暖，包容共生，团结合作，共克时艰，为矿业经济乃至全球经济的复苏做出了自己的贡献。

当前，世界经济总体仍处于低速轨道，不均衡复苏态势改善的幅度有限，投资持续下降，价格总体在低位徘徊。受经济复苏乏力、需求不振影响，今年上半年全球矿业形势依旧延续了以往低迷的态势。虽然近期全球大宗商品市场略有震荡反弹之势，但是与前几年相比，仍处于较低水平。从国内矿业形势来看，矿产品市场需求不足，产能过剩的矛盾依然存在，行业利润大幅下降、企业资金紧张、经营困难等问题依然突出，矿业走出低迷仍需时间。

但我们也要看到，目前，美国、欧洲发达国家以及日本已经完成了工业化和产业转型升级任务，大宗矿产品需求基本呈现稳定状态。我国经济发展进入新常态，正在化解传统产业过剩产能和加强供给侧改革，资源产业链将发生结构性变化，使得煤炭、铁等大宗矿产品消费基本步入峰值区间。而随着未来“金砖国家”及东盟地区国家经济发展的加速，全球大宗矿产品需求将基本稳定。特别是随着新的治理机制的运行、新一轮工业革命的兴起、科技创新对产业发展的驱动以及供给侧改革效果的显现，将给世界矿业特别是新兴经济体的矿业发展提供新的机遇。

本届大会以“秉持新理念、共创新未来”为主题，顺应了国内外矿业界的诉求，也彰显了会议主办方希望通过本次大会，让国际矿业界形成共识，勠力同心，克服困难，提振信心的坚定决心。

对于中国这样的世界上最大的发展中国家以及广大的第三世界国家来说，要实现工业化和现代化，没有可靠的矿产资源保障是不可能的。中国是世界上最大的矿产品生产国、矿产品消费国与矿产品贸易国。近年来，中国通过实施找矿突破战略行动取得了重大找矿成果，资源保障能力明显增强。但是，资源全球分布的不均衡性，决定了世界上没有哪个国家可以完全依靠本国的资源满足发展的需要，必须通过加强国际合作取长补短、互通有无。事实上，近年来，在平等、互惠、合作、互赢的基础上，中国与世界很多国家在矿产资源勘查开发方面开展了卓有成效的合作，获得了很多成功的经验，很多国家从中受益。

众所周知，到20世纪70年代中期，西方发达国家就先后完成了工业化而进入后工业社会，开始利用技术优势进行产业升级换代，并迅速实现了现代化。但在西方发达国家工业化的过程中，也先后发生了震惊世界的系列“环境公害事件”，造成了全球性的生态环境危机。西方发达国家发展的惨痛教训，使中国的决策者们认识到，在全球化过程中，如果将发达国家业已“完成”的工业文明模式作为追求目标，必然与发达国家乃至第三世界国家因为自然资源问题而发生矛盾和冲突，同时会付出巨大的甚至不可挽回的生态环境代价。因此，寻找全新的文明的生态的发展模式，成为中国和整个第三世界国家的不二选择。当然，也是发达国家的必然选择。这也是中国政府提出“创新、协调、绿色、开放、共享”新发展理念的初衷。

当前，世界经济处在十字路口，世界经济格局正在发生深刻变化，经济全球化存在深层次困境，全球经济治理转型的迫切性前所未有。中国必须坚持“两个市场、两种资源，同时立足国内”的资源战略。从国内来看，矿业作为我国传统产业和支柱产业，为我国的现代化建设提供了强有力的物质支持。经济发展形势决定了矿业发展形势。在矿业经济持续低迷、在短期内难以见底的背景下，我们要进一步贯彻落实五大发展新理念，主动适应“新常态”，准确释放鼓励矿业科学发展的政策信号，改革不合时宜的矿业体制机制，坚持以供给侧结构性改革为主线，促进矿业转型升级和结构调整优化；充分发挥创新驱动的引领和支撑作用，发展绿色矿业，坚决淘汰落后的过剩矿业产能；推动矿业与金融、科技、信息等部门之间的对接与融合，有效激发市场主体活力，改善市场预期，释放矿业经济增长潜力，促进矿业可持续健康发展。

“孤举者难起，众行者易趋。”从国际上看，我们要主动参与新一轮全球化和全球矿业秩序治理，积极参与国际矿业政策、规则、标准的制定，构建公正、合理、自由的国际矿业贸易规则；要用更加包容和开放的心态，与世界各国和地区在矿业领域勘查、开采、加工、技术、贸易等方面进行交流与合作，建设包容互利型、共享型、开放型的国际矿业格局，实现共赢发展；在优势互补，互利共赢、共同发展的基础上，切实促进国际矿业繁荣和可持续发展，成为世界矿业经济发展的“压舱石”，为世界矿业经济走出困境贡献智慧，提供经验，共同开创全球矿业更加美好的未来。

Creat a Bright Future

---- For the Opening of China Mining Congress and Expo 2016

CHINA MINING Congress and Expo 2016 will be held at Meijiang Convention and Exhibition Center in Tianjin on Sept.22nd- 25th , 2016. We wish this annual event a success.

After many years of accumulation and improvement , CHINA MINING Congress & Expo has become a perfect platform. During the conference, government officials, industry leaders and experts from both Chinese and foreign mining industries have in-depth dialogues on questions related with the mining industry. The topics cover keynote session supported by the world's leading experts, mining ministers forum, geological survey directors forum, mining development summit forum and many breakout sessions including mining policies and financing, geological survey, prospecting & exploration and development, mineral commodities, mining sustainability, etc. and country (region) investment projects shows and more.

We are so excited that this international mining conference has been successfully held the 18th. "18" is a lucky number which is considered a harbinger of "fortune " in many places of China. With such a good luck and good wish, we expect that this meeting will be an unusually exciting show.

Mining has became one of the most globalized industries in recent years. And the global mining is increasingly to form a community of destiny. Looking back over the past year, the global economy is still in the doldrums and mining market has not yet bottomed out. Mining countries all over the world are profoundly understanding the reality of"a prosperity, a loss for both sides". So they also understand the significance of unity and cooperation which have also made an important contribution for the mining economy and the global economic recovery.

At present, the world economy is still in a downturn with the limited amplitude of uneven recovery trend, the continuous declination of investment, and the low level of price. Be affected by the sluggish recovery of economy and weak demand, global mining situation is still in the continuation of the previous downturn in the first half of this year. Compared with previous years, the recent shock rebound of the global commodities market is still in a low level. From the view of domestic mining situation, the contradiction of the lack of demand and the excess capacity, as well as a significant decline in profits, the financial strain of companies and the management difficulties, which make the recovery of mining industries still need time.

While we must acknowledge that the developed countries in Europe, America and Japan have completed the mission of industrialization and industry transformation and upgrading, which results in the basic steady demand of minerals. The new normal of Chinese economy is to resolve the excess capacity of traditional industries and strengthen the supply-side reform, change the resource industry chain structurally and make the bulk commodity consumption such as coal and iron into the peak interval. And with the acceleration of economic development of the "BRIC countries" and ASEAN countries, global demand for bulk commodities will basically stable. Especially with the operation of the new governance mechanism, the rise of a new round of industrial revolution, the industry driven from technology innovation and the effect of the supply-side reform, the world mining, especially the mining of emerging economies, will meet new opportunities.

With the theme of"Uphold new concept and create new future"，this conference conforms to the demands of the mining industry at home and abroad, and manifests the determination that the conference organizers wants to make the international mining industry  reach a consensus and work together to overcome difficulties and boost confidence.

It is impossible to realize industrialization and modernization without reliable mineral resources security for the world's largest developing country like China and the third world countries. China is the world's largest minerals producing country, minerals consuming country and minerals trading country. In recent years, China made significant prospecting results, the capacity of resource security grew noticeably through implementing National Exploration & Development Planning (NEDP). But the imbalance of the global distribution of resources determined that there is no other country in the world can depend entirely on their own resources to meet the needs of their development, the international cooperation should be enhanced to learn from each other, as well as exchange of needed goods. In fact, in recent years, on the basis of equality, mutual benefit, cooperation and win-win situation, China carried out the fruitful cooperation with many other countries in the world on mineral resources, China gained a lot of successful experience, meanwhile, many countries benefit from it.

As is known to all, the western developed countries have completed the industrialization into the post-industrial society successively by the mid 1970s. the western developed countries began upgrading their industries by using the technological advantage, and realized the modernization quickly. But in the process of industrialization in the western developed countries, it also happened a series of "environmental hazards incident"which caused the global ecological environment crisis. The painful lessons of the development of the western developed countries made China's policymakers to recognize that in the process of the globalization, if China set the "done" industrial civilization pattern of developed country as a goal, it will definitely have the contradiction and conflict with the developed countries and even the third world countries on the issue of natural resource. At the same time, China will pay a heavy even irreversible ecological environmental cost, therefore, looking for a new, ecological and civilized development mode is the inevitable choice of China and the third world countries. Certainly, it is also the choice of the developed countries. And it is the original intention of the Chinese government put forward “Innovation, Coordination, Green, Open, Sharing" as the new development concept.

Currently, world economy is at a crossroads, world economy economic pattern is undergoing profound changes. There is a deeper dilemma of economic globalization and a unprecedented urgency for global economic governance transformation. China must adhere to the resources strategy of "both home and overseas resource markets but based on home market". Domestically, as a traditional and pillar industry in China, mining provides a strong material support for our country's modernization construction. Economic development situation determines mining development situation. In the long-term mining economic downturn, we should further implement the five development concepts, take the initiative to adapt to "new normal", release accurate policy signals to encourage scientific development of mining, reform the outdated mining system and mechanism, adhere to structural reform of the supply front as the main line, promote transformation and upgrading mining industry, and optimize structural adjustment, give full play to the role of innovation-driven in leading and supporting, develop green mining, and resolutely eliminate backward excess mining capacity; drive interaction and amalgamation between mining and finance, technology, information departments, effectively stimulate the market’s vitality, improve market expectation, release the potential of mining economic growth, and advance the sustainable and healthy development development of mining.

"Single person can hardly heave, crowd of walkers make path easier." Internationally, we should participate in the new round of globalization and global mining order management actively, take part in formulate international mining policies, rules, standards, build a just, reasonable and free international mining trade rules; cooperate with other countries and areas in exploration, mining, processing, technology and trade with a more inclusive and open mind, build a mutually beneficial, sharing, open international mining pattern, achieve win-win development; promote the sustainable and booming development of global mining on the basis of complementary advantages, mutual benefit and common development, become the world's mining economic development "ballast stone". We expect to contribute to global mining economy's way to get rid of the difficulty ,and work together to create a better future for global mining industry.