MIIT Issues 15th Five-Year Plan for Civil Explosives Industry, Sets 2030 Targets

The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) has issued the 15th Five-Year Plan for the Safe Development of the Civil Explosives Industry, proposing that by 2030 the industry's safety level will be further improved, innovation capacity will continue to strengthen, the supply capacity of civil explosives will steadily increase, and the industrial structure, product structure and capacity layout will be further optimized. Governance effectiveness will be enhanced, and enterprise operating results will improve steadily. The plan states that scientific and technological innovation and industrial innovation will be deeply integrated, with smart manufacturing, artificial intelligence and other technologies promoted and applied. Intelligent online inspection, digital workshops and smart factory benchmarks will form demonstration models, and unmanned production lines will become mainstream. The standards system will be more complete, with deeper participation in international standards development and technical exchanges, and gradually increasing international influence.

The plan calls for optimizing the regional layout of production capacity, coordinating adjustments to regional capacity planning, and scientifically setting production and sales sites for civil explosives. It guides capacity to shift toward regions with concentrated demand and widening supply gaps, restricts capacity transfers into regions with excess capacity, and promotes supply-demand matching. In principle, no licensed production capacity will be added for product categories with excess capacity. Enterprises are supported in providing customized services for demand from coal mines, metal mines, non-metal mines and infrastructure construction, thereby improving effective supply capacity. Supply and demand monitoring and early warning in the civil explosives market will be strengthened and guided in a timely manner, reinforcing the industry's role in safeguarding national infrastructure construction.

In improving intrinsic safety, the plan supports intensive production and encourages enterprises to merge or close production sites, dismantle outdated production lines and reduce hazard sources. It encourages greater investment in work safety, faster upgrading of old equipment and facilities, and the elimination and replacement of high-risk processes and equipment. The application of intrinsically safe production technologies, processes and equipment is encouraged, while the number of operators in hazardous positions will continue to be reduced. Unmanned production lines will be promoted and applied; in principle, no new single-head, multi-tail or multi-head, single-tail industrial explosive production lines will be built. The plan encourages the development of low-sensitivity civil explosive products and the promotion of safer production methods.

The plan proposes adjusting the product structure and continuing to raise the proportion of licensed production capacity for site-mixed explosives. It will promote diversification of formulations, enrich and improve the categories of civil explosives, and better meet market demand. It supports the replacement and exit of excess capacity in small product categories to improve resource utilization efficiency. New types of civil explosives will be steadily brought into the regulatory framework.

In optimizing the industrial structure, the plan proposes raising industrial concentration and encouraging civil explosives enterprises to carry out restructuring and consolidation in accordance with laws and regulations. It supports civil explosives enterprise groups in extending along the upstream and downstream industrial chain, deepening integrated development of research, production and blasting services, and improving coordination across the entire industrial chain. It encourages the establishment of regional sales platforms, gradually eliminating sales enterprises with low safety levels and inadequate safety investment, and guiding poorly managed enterprises with poor safety conditions to exit the market in an orderly manner.

The plan specifies that by 2030, industry governance will achieve notable results, enterprise restructuring and consolidation will advance in an orderly manner, and industrial concentration will continue to rise, with the formation of three to five large civil explosives enterprise groups with strong international operating capabilities. It will effectively prevent involution in the industry, and enterprise efficiency and employee income levels will make steady progress. Green manufacturing technologies will continue to upgrade, and green factories will develop rapidly. International cooperation will continue to deepen, and enterprises' overseas service capabilities will improve significantly.