Company/Organization Profile

Originated in Xingshan County, Hubei Province, Xingfa Group is a globally‑operating enterprise centered on world‑leading fine phosphorus chemicals and committed to green circular development.

It currently owns 2 listed companies, 68 subsidiaries and 40 equity‑joint‑venture companies, with over 15,000 employees. Xingfa Group has been listed among China’s Top 500 Enterprises for 11 consecutive years (ranking 400th), and holds the 2nd position among Hubei’s Top 100 Manufacturing Enterprises.

Its joint‑stock subsidiary(Hubei Xingfa Chemicals Group Co.,Ltd) ranks 457th on the Fortune China 500 List. Deep‑rooted in phosphate‑rock resources, the Group adheres to the philosophy of “Ecological Priority and Green Development”.

It has carried out systematic exploration and practices revolving around ecological restoration, technological innovation, efficient resource utilization, and coordinated mine‑local development, blazing a trail for the green transformation of phosphate mines.

机构简介

兴发集团发源于湖北省兴山县，是一家以全球领先的精细磷化工为核心、致力于绿色循环发展的全球化运营企业。现有2家上市公司、68家子公司、40家参股联营公司，员工15000余人。集团公司连续11年入围中国企业500强（居400位），位列湖北制造业百强第2位；股份公司位居《财富》中国500强第457位。集团深耕磷矿资源领域，立足“生态优先、绿色发展”理念，围绕生态修复、技术创新、资源高效利用、矿地协同发展开展系统性探索实践，走出了一条磷矿山绿色转型发展路径。

Project Overview

Xingfa Group operates six phosphate mines in Xingshan County, Yichang City, Hubei Province, with an annual designed production capacity of 4.85 million tonnes, supported by four ore processing plants with a total annual processing capacity of 4.80 million tonnes.

Phosphate resources in the mining areas occur in a special form that low grade ore is at the upper and bottom part of the deposit, and high grade ore is at the middle part, with nearly 90 % of the deposit being medium to low grade phosphate ore, posing great challenges to mining and processing. For a long time, constrained by mining and processing technologies and market conditions, the development and utilization of medium to low grade phosphate ore has long been trapped in the dilemma “technically feasible but economically unviable”.

Take the Shukongping Mining Area in Xingshan County as an example, which includes the Houping Phosphate Mine and Shukongping Phosphate Mine. Since the 1980s, dozens of enterprises have conducted mining operations here.

Long‑term disordered mining featuring “mining large‑sized ore while discarding small‑sized ore, mining high-grade ore while discarding low-grade ore” resulted in massive volumes of low‑grade phosphate ore being randomly stockpiled as waste rock. This not only wasted precious mineral resources, but also created severe safety and environmental‑protection hazards.

The traditional mining model suffered from multiple bottlenecks: low resource utilization rates, severe ecological damage and high safety risks. Systematic green transformation was urgently required to strike a balance between efficient resource exploitation and ecological conservation.

Improvement Objectives: Guided by the principle of “Ecological Priority and Green Development”, drive efficient resource utilization through technological innovation, restore mining‑area environments via ecological rehabilitation, enhance intrinsic safety through intelligent upgrading, and boost rural vitalization via coordinated mine‑local development. Xingfa Group aims to build a replicable and promotable demonstration benchmark for green transformation of phosphate mines.

项目背景

兴发集团旗下所属磷矿，位于湖北省宜昌市兴山县的有6座磷矿，年设计生产规模485万吨，配套4家选矿厂，选矿总规模480万吨/年。矿区磷矿资源以上贫矿、中富矿和下贫矿形式赋存，近90%为中低品位磷矿，开采和选矿难度大。长期以来，受采选技术所限和市场行情等因素影响，中低品位磷矿石开发利用长期处于“技术可行、经济无路”的困境。

以兴山县树空坪矿区为例，该矿区包括后坪磷矿、树崆坪磷矿，自20世纪80年代起先后有数十家企业进行开采，长期“采大弃小、采富弃贫”式的无序开采造成大量低品位磷矿被当作废石随意堆放，既浪费了宝贵资源，又带来严重的安全和环保隐患。传统矿山开采模式面临资源利用率低、生态环境破坏严重、安全生产风险高等多重痛点，亟须通过系统性绿色转型实现资源高效开发与生态保护的协调发展。

改进目标：以“生态优先、绿色发展”为统领，通过技术创新驱动资源高效利用、生态修复重塑矿区环境、智能化升级提升本质安全水平、矿地协同助力乡村振兴，打造可复制推广的磷矿山绿色转型示范标杆。

Project Implementation

(Ⅰ) Addressing Ecological Damage — Implement Systematic Ecological Restoration

Upholding the principle of “conducting restoration concurrently with mining”, Xingfa Group’s Safety & Environmental Protection Department oversees overall coordination while individual mine enterprises undertake on site implementation.

A total investment of 100 million RMB has been deployed for systematic ecological restoration through three approaches: top soil covering and revegetation on the surface, underground tailings backfilling, and centralized wastewater treatment.

Over 60 million RMB has been invested in comprehensive geological environment improvement. Nearly 100 million RMB is spent annually on backfilling underground goafs, ensuring waste rock remains underground and tailings are not stockpiled on the surface.

More than 70 million RMB has been invested to comprehensively treat eight collapse and subsidence sites including the Liangjiapo site and Luoziping site. 40 million RMB has been allocated for land reclamation and vegetation recovery, completing over 200,000 m² of soil covering and greening work, bringing the greening coverage rate of all reclaimable areas in mining areas to 100 %.

Xingfa Group has established a long term mechanism for parallel “mining protection restoration”, fostering a virtuous cycle between ecological rehabilitation and mine production.

(Ⅱ) Addressing Low Resource Utilization — Tackle Mining and Processing Key Technologies

Targeting world frontier phosphorus chemical technologies, Xingfa Group’s Technology Center leads a dedicated mining R&D team of 13 members (1 PhD holder and 12 bachelor’s degree holders). 280 million RMB has been invested in overall planning and design for phosphate rock mining. Completely mining of the whole phosphate deposit has been widely implemented.

The independently developed Key Technologies for Safe and Efficient Mining of Thick and Gently Dipping Phosphate Ore bodies under Complex Geological Conditions has solved worldwide technical challenges in mining extra thick large scale ore bodies and won the First class Prize for Scientific and Technological Progress from the China Petroleum and Chemical Industry Federation.

In collaboration with Hubei Three Gorges Laboratory, the Shukongping Phosphate Mine has broken through bottlenecks in processing medium to low grade phosphate ore, lowering the feed ore grade threshold from 22 % to 16 % and unlocking 120 million tonnes of previously inefficient mineral resources.

Xingfa Group vigorously promotes new technologies and processes such as subsequent backfill mining and tailings cemented backfilling, with individual mine being responsible for on site technical implementation. Resource recovery rates have reached above 83 %.

In the past two years, six advanced and applicable technologies from Xingfa Group have been included in the Catalogue of Advanced and Applicable Technologies for Mineral Resource Conservation and Comprehensive Utilization issued by the Ministry of Natural Resources.

(Ⅲ) Addressing Transportation Costs and Efficiency — Build a Green Transportation System

Led by the Group’s Engineering Department and daily managed by its Operation Department, the Houping Phosphate Mine within the Shukongping Mining Area has invested 920 million RMB to construct a 55 kilometer fully enclosed pipeline system.

Ore is made into slurry and directly transported to docks via pipelines. This cuts annual transportation costs by 50 million RMB and reduces diesel consumption by 400 tonnes. The commissioning of the pipeline marks the continuous improvement of Xingfa Group’s green transportation system.

(Ⅳ) Addressing Production Safety and Labor Costs — Advance Intelligent Upgrading

Coordinated by a special intelligent construction task force and implemented in phases across mines, mining mechanization transformation has been carried out. Since 2007, more than 1,000 front line jobs have been reduced while production efficiency has risen by over 30 %. The mechanization rate in mining procedures exceeds 95 %.

An investment of over 50 million RMB has built a mine safety control center at the Shukongping Phosphate Mine, enabling intelligent control of auxiliary production systems including underground drainage, ventilation, power supply, crushing and belt conveying. In cooperation with Kaishan Group, Xingfa Group has developed China’s first intelligent rock drilling robot to realize unmanned rock drilling operations.

R&D work continues on intelligent loading, intelligent bolt supporting and underground unmanned driving. The Houping Phosphate Mine has built a smart mine architecture of “Network + Data Center + Platform + N Innovative Application Scenarios”.

Its intelligent transformation experience provides replicable and promotable practical references for non coal mines across Hubei Province.

(Ⅴ) Addressing Local Community Conflicts — Build Harmonious Mine Community Relationships

Overseen by Xingfa Group’s Social Responsibility Department and implemented locally by each mine, 50 million RMB has been invested in comprehensive land improvement covering 20,000 mu within the Shukongping Green Mining Development Demonstration Zone.

Additional Supports help resettled residents develop eco agriculture and breeding industries. More than 900 million RMB has been spent constructing three resettlement communities: Maocaoping, Guanzikou and Gaolan, for holistic relocation of residents affected by mining activities.

Xingfa Group provides more than 3,000 local jobs every year. It has cumulatively invested 150 million RMB in student supporting donations and set up a 110 million RMB public welfare fund for rural vitalization.

项目实施

（一）针对生态破坏问题——实施系统性生态修复

集团坚持“边开采边治理边修复”原则，由集团安全环保部门统筹推进、各矿山企业具体实施，投资1亿元采取“地上覆土复绿、地下尾矿充填、废水集中处理”方式系统推进矿区生态修复。投资6000余万元开展地质环境综合治理，每年投资近亿元对井下采空区进行充填，做到废石不出井、尾矿不外堆。投资7000余万元对梁家坡崩塌体、炉子坪等8处塌陷区进行综合治理。

投资4000万元开展土地复垦与植被恢复，完成覆土绿化20多万平方米，矿区可绿化区域覆盖率达100%。集团建立“开采—治理—修复”同步推进的长效机制，实现生态修复与矿山开采的良性循环。

（二）针对资源利用率低问题——攻关采选关键技术

集团瞄准世界磷化工前沿技术，由集团技术中心牵头组建采矿专职研发队伍13人（博士1人、本科12人），斥资2.8亿元对磷矿开采进行整体规划设计，全面推行全层开采回采工艺。自主研发的“复杂地质条件下厚大缓倾斜磷矿体安全高效开采关键技术”，破解了特厚大矿体开采世界性难题，荣获中国石油与化学工业联合会科技进步一等奖。

树崆坪磷矿联合湖北三峡实验室，攻克中低品位磷矿选矿难题，将入选原矿品位由原来的22%下降到16%，一举盘活低效资源1.2亿吨。集团大力推广嗣后充填采矿、重介质尾矿胶结充填等新技术、新工艺，各矿山负责技术落地，实现资源回采率达83%以上。近两年，集团共有6项先进适用技术入选自然资源部《矿产资源节约与综合利用先进适用技术目录》。

（三）针对运输成本与效率问题——建设绿色运输体系

树空坪矿区后坪磷矿由集团工程部门主导建设，运营部门负责日常管理，投资9.2亿元建成的一条55公里全封闭管道，将矿石制成矿浆直输码头，每年节约运输成本5000万元，减少柴油消耗400吨。管道投运，标志着兴发集团绿色运输体系日趋完善。

（四）针对安全生产与人力成本问题——推进智能化升级

集团由智能化建设专班统筹推进、各矿山分批实施，全面推进机械化改造。2007年以来一线减员1000余人，生产效率提升30%以上。采矿环节机械化率超95%。投资5000多万元在树崆坪磷矿建立矿山安全管控中心，井下排水、通风、供电、破碎及胶带运输等生产辅助系统全部实现智能化控制。与开山集团合作研发首台智能凿岩机器人，实现凿岩环节无人化，并持续开展智能装载、智能锚护和井下无人驾驶研发。后坪磷矿搭建起“网络+中台+平台+N个创新应用场景”的智慧矿山架构，其智能化转型经验为湖北省非煤矿山行业提供了可复制、可推广的实践样本。

（五）针对矿地矛盾问题——构建和谐矿地关系

集团由社会责任部门统筹、各矿山属地落实，投资5000万元对树空坪矿区绿色矿业发展示范区范围内2万亩土地进行综合整治，配套帮助移民发展生态农业和养殖业。投资9000多万元建设茅草坪、观子口、高岚3个移民安置小区，对矿山开采影响区居民进行整体搬迁。每年为地方提供就业岗位3000个以上，累计投入1.5亿元捐资助学，成立1.1亿元乡村振兴公益基金。

Project Outcome

Remarkable contrasts have been achieved before and after implementation. Five producing phosphate mines have been awarded the National Green Mine Award. The greening coverage rate of reclaimable mining area land reaches 100 %.

100 % of waste rock and tailings are recycled as resources. Total pollutant emissions from industrial parks have dropped by 30 %, industrial water intake has decreased by 50 %, and the comprehensive utilization rate of four categories of industrial waste exceeds 95 %.

In 2025, the Group recorded sales revenue of 65.5 billion RMB, profit and tax contribution of RMB 3.781 billion, and export foreign exchange earnings of 1.367  billion USD , representing respective increases of 116 %, 268 % and 332 % compared with 2016.

Mechanism Innovation: A synchronous mechanism for “mining, protection and restoration” has been established, forming a trinity ecological restoration model: “top soil covering and revegetation on the surface, underground tailings backfilling, and centralized wastewater treatment”.

Technological Innovation: Breakthroughs have been made in processing medium to low grade phosphate ore: the usable ore grade threshold is lowered from 22 % to 16 %, unlocking 120 million tonnes of underutilized resources.

The independently developed key technologies for safe and efficient mining of thick gently dipping phosphate ore bodies have won an industry level first class prize. The intelligent rock drilling robot realizes unmanned drilling operations.

Model Innovation: A resource echelon utilization model of “integrated mining processing-utilization” has been formed. Completed projects include the Wawu 600 kt/a gravity separation plant, Wawu 1 Mt/a photoelectric processing plant, Shukongping 1.2 Mt/a gravity separation plus photoelectric processing facility, as well as Houping 2 Mt/a flotation and pipeline transportation project. Completely mining and utilization of the whole phosphate deposit are realized.

Sustainability and Replicability:The Shukongping Mining Area is among China’s 50 National‑level Green Mining Development Demonstration Zones. Its experience has been included in typical green‑mine cases released by the Ministry of Natural Resources.

The Shukongping Phosphate Mine was selected as a typical ecological‑restoration case by the Ministry of Natural Resources in 2025. The intelligent‑transformation experience of the Houping Phosphate Mine offers replicable practices for non‑coal mines in Hubei Province.

Through intelligent‑equipment application, photoelectric ore processing and ecological‑restoration technologies, the Group has explored new paths for carbon reduction and green growth in green‑mine construction. A complete institutional framework covering technical standards, management norms and evaluation systems has been formulated, providing replicable practical references for similar phosphate mines nationwide.

成果亮点

实施前后对比显著。通过系统性治理，在产5座磷矿全部建成国家级绿色矿山。矿区可绿化区域覆盖率达100%。废石尾矿100%资源化利用。园区污染物综合排放量削减30%，工业取水量下降50%，工业“四废”综合利用率超95%。2025年集团销售收入655亿元、利税37.81亿元、出口创汇13.67亿美元，较2016年分别增长116%、268%、332%。

机制创新：建立“边开采、边治理、边修复”同步推进机制，形成“地上覆土复绿、地下尾矿充填、废水集中处理”三位一体生态修复模式。

技术创新：攻克中低品位磷矿选矿难题，可利用品位从22%降至16%，盘活低效资源1.2亿吨；自主研发的厚大缓倾斜磷矿体安全高效开采关键技术获行业一等奖；智能凿岩机器人实现凿岩无人化。

模式创新：构建“采选加一体化”资源梯级利用模式，建成瓦屋60万吨/年重选厂、瓦屋100万吨/年光电选矿厂、树空坪120万吨重介质+光电选矿、后坪200万吨/年浮选及管道输送等项目，实现磷矿资源全层开采、分级利用。

持续性与可复制性：树空坪矿区入选全国50个国家级绿色矿业发展示范区；相关经验被纳入自然资源部绿色矿山典型案例；树崆坪磷矿2025年入选自然资源部生态修复典型案例；后坪磷矿智能化转型经验为湖北省非煤矿山行业提供可复制推广实践。

集团在绿色矿山建设方面通过智能装备应用和光电选矿、生态修复等技术探索了降碳增绿新路径。集团形成了涵盖技术标准、管理规范、评价体系在内的完整制度框架，可为国内同类型磷矿山提供可复制实践样本。

Project Highlights

Ecological and Environmental Benefits: The 55 kilometer fully enclosed pipeline at Houping Phosphate Mine cuts dust emissions by 85 % and reduces annual carbon emissions by over 2,000 tonnes. Pollutant emissions from industrial parks decrease by 30 %, industrial water intake falls by 50 %, and the comprehensive utilization rate of four categories of industrial waste exceeds 95 %.

All reclaimable land within mining zones is fully revegetated. The Group has completed carbon footprint certification for 26 product lines. Clean power consumption reaches 980 million kWh, accounting for 18.38 % of total electricity consumption. (Statistical scope: Year 2025, covering major mining areas and chemical industrial parks of the Group.)

Social Impacts: More than 3,000 local jobs are provided annually. Cumulative donations for education is 150 million RMB in total, and a 110 million RMB public welfare fund for rural vitalization has been founded. In July 2026, Xingfa Group obtained consecutive Wind ESGA ratings with a composite score of 7.55, higher than the basic chemical industry average of 6.20.

成果影响力

生态环境效益：后坪磷矿55公里全封闭管道使粉尘排放减少85%，每年减少碳排放量2000吨以上。园区污染物排放量削减30%，工业取水量下降50%，工业“四废”综合利用率超95%。矿区可绿化面积100%复绿。集团完成26款产品碳足迹认证；清洁电力使用量达9.8亿千瓦时，占用电总量18.38%。（统计口径：2025年度，核算范围涵盖集团主要矿区及化工园区）

社会影响：每年为地方提供就业岗位3000个以上；累计投入1.5亿元捐资助学，成立1.1亿元乡村振兴公益基金。2026年7月，兴发集团连续获得WindESGA评级，综合得分7.55，高于基础化工行业均值6.20分。

Reviews & Honors

Evaluation and Feedback: In September 2025, Guan Zhi ou, Minister of the Ministry of Natural Resources, cited the case of intensive mineral resource utilization at the Shukongping Phosphate Mine in the CCTV special series Xi Jin ping Thought on Ecological Civilization: Readings — Harmony between Humanity and Nature.

During an inspection tour to the Houping Phosphate Mine, Huang Jian xiong, Secretary of Yichang Municipal Party Committee, commended Xingfa Group for “actively advancing intelligent and green mine transformation, realizing tailings backfilling and mineral concentrate output, improving resource utilization efficiency while lowering energy consumption and pollutant discharges”.

Conference Exchanges and Industry Recognition: At the National Green Mine On site Exchange Conference held in Chenzhou, Hunan Province in November 2025, Xingfa Group, as one of five mine enterprise representatives, shared its advanced experience in green mine development.

In May 2025, its green mine building experience was presented at the 2025 China (Guangxi) ASEAN Mining Conference. On April 10, 2025, China Natural Resources News published the Group’s experience in its special column “Tour of National level Green Mine Construction”.

In August 2026, CCTV News reported again on the commissioning of the green pipeline at the Shukongping Phosphate Mining Area. The enterprise has been accredited as a National Demonstration Base for Comprehensive Utilization of Medium to low grade Phosphate Ore.

Honors and Awards:

•Five of its phosphate mines are listed in the National Green Mine Directory

•Shukongping Mining Area is among China’s 50 National level Green Mining Development Demonstration Zones

•Shukongping Phosphate Mine was selected as a typical ecological restoration case by the Ministry of Natural Resources (2025)

•Key Technologies for Safe and Efficient Mining of Thick and Gently Dipping Phosphate Ore Bodies under Complex Geological Conditions won the First class Prize for Scientific and Technological Progress, China Petroleum and Chemical Industry Federation

•Awarded the China Chemical Mining Outstanding Contribution Prize

•Consecutively obtained Wind ESGA ratings

•Five technical achievements included in the Catalogue of Advanced and Applicable Technologies for Mineral Resource Conservation and Comprehensive Utilization (Ministry of Natural Resources)

评价与荣誉

评价反馈：2025年9月，自然资源部关志鸥部长在央视专题节目《习近平生态文明思想系列讲读》“人与自然和谐共生”中，点名介绍了树崆坪磷矿矿产节约集约利用案例。宜昌市委书记黄剑雄调研后坪磷矿时，肯定集团“积极推进矿山智能化、绿色化转型，实现尾渣回填、精矿下山，提高了资源利用率，降低了能耗和排放”。

会议交流与行业认可：2025年11月，全国绿色矿山现场交流会在湖南郴州召开，兴发集团作为5家矿山企业代表之一推介绿色矿山建设先进经验。2025年5月，兴发集团在兴绿色矿山建设经验在2025中国（广西）-东盟矿业大会上交流。2025年4月10日，《中国自然资源报》首期国家级绿色矿山建设巡礼刊发兴发集团经验。2026年8月，央视新闻再次聚焦树崆坪磷矿区绿色管道投运。公司被评定为全国中低品位磷矿综合利用示范基地。

奖项荣誉：所属5座磷矿入选国家级绿色矿山名录；树空坪矿区入选全国50个国家级绿色矿业发展示范区；树崆坪磷矿2025年入选自然资源部生态修复典型案例；“复杂地质条件下厚大缓倾斜磷矿体安全高效开采关键技术”获中国石油与化学工业联合会科技进步一等奖；公司获“中国化学矿业突出贡献”奖；连续获得WindESGA评级；5项技术成果入选自然资源部《矿产资源节约与综合利用先进适用技术目录》。