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Published: 12 Apr 2011 18:48:20 PST

BEIJING, April 13 - China's western Xinjiang region aims to be the country's next major coal production base and catapult itself into the nation's top three producing regions by 2015, industry officials said at a Beijing conference.

Coal production in the northwestern autonomous region of Xinjiang is projected to reach 430 million tonnes by the middle of this decade, compared with about 100 million tonnes in 2010, Wu Jiachun, Deputy Director-General, Xinjiang Bureau of Coal Industry, said on Tuesday.

"There are now 65 big projects under construction and many have a planned capacity of more than 10 million tonnes per year. Most of them have an annual capacity of at least 4 million tonnes per annum," Wu said.

Known as China's "coal sea", Xinjiang has massive coal reserves of up to 2.19 trillion tonnes, accounting for some 40 percent of the country's estimated overall reserves.

However, poor infrastructure has until recently hampered the development of its vast reserves.

But thanks to massive investments by state-owned coal groups such as Shenhua Coal, Lu'an Coal Group and Guodian Corp, Xinjiang's coal output has surged 154 percent from a mere 6.06 million tonnes produced in 2005, according to data from the province's coal bureau.

Wu said Xinjiang has teamed up with the Ministry of Railways to invest 310 billion yuan to construct a raft of railways, which will achieve 500 million tonnes of coal railway capacity by 2015.

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