After a series of reform measures, the concentration of China's coal industry has been further improved in recent years. The coal supply areas are mainly concentrated in Shanxi, Inner Mongolia and Shaanxi. In addition, Hebei, Henan, Anhui, Shandong, Guizhou and other places are also relatively more.
Due to the dispersion and low concentration of coal mines, and the oversupply of the market, there is a phenomenon of overcapacity in our coal industry, which seriously affects the economic development. In order to solve this problem, the state began to phase out backward coal production capacity in the past few years. On February 5, 2016, the State Council issued the opinions on resolving excess production capacity in the coal industry and realizing poverty alleviation and development. The opinions clearly pointed out that starting from 2016, it will take three to five years to withdraw about 500 million tons of production capacity and reduce and restructure about 500 million tons. （WoGuoMeiTanZiYuanZhuYaoJiZhongZaiNaJiGeSheng）