煤炭是我市经济发展的主要支柱产业之一。目前,我市地方煤炭年产量已达1500万吨,在我市国民经济发展中占举足轻重的地位。发展支柱优势,实现朔州经济上新台阶的战略目标,一方面必须保证煤炭发展的后劲,另一方面必须提高地方煤矿的经济效益。但是,随着社会主义市场经济的建立和计划外煤炭价格的放开,地方煤矿在走向市场的过程中,还处于“阵痛”和转折阶段,一时还难以适应社会大市场竞争的需求,致使我市煤炭工业经济效益下降。有的煤 Coal is one of the main pillar industries in our city’s economic development. At present, the annual output of local coal in our city has reached 15 million tons, occupying a pivotal position in the development of the national economy in our city. To develop the pillar advantage and achieve the strategic goal of Shuozhou’s new economic stage must guarantee the stamina of coal development on the one hand and increase the economic benefits of local coal mines on the other. However, with the establishment of a socialist market economy and the liberalization of planned coal prices, the local coal mines are still in a “throesome” and turning-point stage in their march toward the market. For a time, it is still difficult to meet the demand of competition in the social market and cause me City coal industry economic benefits decline. Some coal