OREANDA-NEWS. September 03, 2014. Recently, on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of the national coal industry Modern Distance Education and Training Net hosted by China Coal Industry Association, Datong Coal Mine Group won Modern Distance Education and Training Advanced Unit of the national coal industry.

The predecessor of Datong Coal Mine Group is Datong Coal Mining Administration, which was established on Aug. 30th, 1949 and restructured as the Datong Coal Mine Group Co., Ltd. in July 2000.

Datong Coal Mine Group is located in the southwest part of Datong city, a well-known historical and cultural city, and its coal mines mainly scattered in Shanxi Province and Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. Now, it has become a super-large comprehensive energy group, which takes coal production as its mainstay and features the simultaneous development of a variety of industries such as power, coal chemical, metallurgy and coal machinery manufacturing, construction and building material, logistics and foreign trade, etc.

Datong Coal Mine Group has a long history of coal mining, and its coal resources had ever been developed and used during the end of Ming Dynasty and the beginning of Qing Dynasty. Over the past 62 years since it established, the company has turned out a total of more than 2.1 billion tons of coal.

Datong Coal Mine Group boasts the advanced coal mining technology. Now, it has created more than "100 No.1 honors in China", and has been awarded 168 Scientific and Technological Progress Prizes above the provincial and ministerial levels. It has a rich corporate cultural background, and enjoys a salient advantage in the country's mining industry in professionals, management, and technical teams.

Datong coal is well-known at home and abroad for its low content ash, low content sulphur, high calorific value, moderate volatilization, stable quality, etc. And it is called as industrial fines and is a kind of quality brand steam coal in the world.

Until now, Datong coal that has 6 series and 15 coal categories in all registered as "Dayou Brand" and many other brands, is well received in various industries in China, including power, metallurgy, building materials and many other industries. It is also exported to many countries such as Japan, South Korea, India and Turkey.