我国有望诞生一世界级金矿！

China has made significant breakthroughs in mineral exploration over the past five years, a senior official has said.

Xu Dachun, vice-minister of natural resources, said at a State Council Information Office news conference on Wednesday that the Dadonggou gold mine in Liaoning province, which is estimated to hold almost 1,500 metric tons of gold, could be potentially ranked as another world-class gold mine alongside the existing one in Jiaodong, Shandong province.

找矿重大突破！

我国有望再添世界级金矿

Over the past five years, China conducted an assessment of 163 identified mineral resource sites, uncovering 534 new medium and large oil, gas and mineral deposits. According to the ministry, 10 large oil fields and 19 large gas fields have been discovered.

The ministry says the substantial increase in oil and gas reserves has ensured a stable domestic oil production of 200 million tons and a natural gas output exceeding 240 billion cubic meters.

"Lithium, a key resource for new energy vehicles, is found to be abundant in the 'Asian Lithium Belt', which spans 2,800 kilometers from east to west across Sichuan and Qinghai provinces and the Xizang and Xinjiang Uygur autonomous regions," Liu said.

China has increased forest coverage to over 25 percent — representing a quarter of the world's new green areas — and is leading global environmental restoration while promoting economic growth, senior officials said at a Wednesday news conference.

Minister of Natural Resources Guan Zhiou said at the news conference that China is managing natural landscapes as a whole, including mountains, waters and forests.

The nation has developed a large-scale protection system from the mountains to the seas, carrying out projects such as the rehabilitation of abandoned mines, the restoration of coastlines and coastal wetlands, and the expansion of mangrove areas.

"China has become one of the few countries in the world to have a net increase in mangrove areas," Guan said.