OREANDA-NEWS. December 01, 2011. A ceremony was held by the China International Mining Conference to grant awards to enterprises and projects. Five types of highest awards were granted, namely, the award for the Best International Cooperation in Exploration, the Award for the Best Development, the Award for the Best Environmental Protection, the Award for the Best Technological Innovations and the Award for the Best Services. The Jinhuagong Mine under the Datong Coal Mine Group won the award for the Best International Cooperation in Environmental Protection in China International Mining Conference 2011, reported the press-centre of Datong Coal Mine.

Zhang Youxi, chairman of the Datong Coal Mine Group, accepted the award on behalf of the Group.

The awards, selected and granted once a year, aim to summarize the successful experience in mining exploration by Chinese-foreign joint ventures or Chinese-foreign cooperative ventures, to set up models in mining industry international cooperation and to showcase the image of the opening-up of China's mining industry to the rest of the world. The award of the Best International Cooperation in Environmental Protection is presented to enterprises or projects that have made outstanding contributions to sustainable development of environment in mining exploration and development in the past year.