Review of China Full-mechanized Mining Coal for 30 Years

Chinese coal output from full-mechanized mining has increased 59 times and maximum output of a full-mechanized mining face has increased 28 times since China started reform and opening-up.Full-mechanized mining with large mining-height in softly inclined coal seam made big progress;full-mechanized caving mining and equipments developed fully;full-mechanized and high-grade conventional mining equipments in softly inclined thin and medium-thick coal seam have developed and output has increased several times over;mining methods under special conditions have gained Chinese characteristic.