The Co-Construction of Mine Villages—An Important Way for Coal Mining Enterprises in Yunnan's Minority Areas to Fulfill Social Responsibility
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International Conference on Informatization in Education, Management and Business (IEMB 2015) The Co-construction of Mine Villages—an Important Way for Coal Mining Enterprises in Yunnan's Minority Areas to Fulfill Social Responsibility Yunhong GONG Qujing Normal University, Qujing, Yunnan Province, 655011 China Abstract. In the minority areas with the enterprises possess a capital advantage and the backward development of economy, the management personnel who are good at fulfillment of social responsibility by coal mining economic situation, planning, and innovation. enterprises is of more important significance. Therefore, the coal mining enterprises must be The coal mining enterprises in minority areas encouraged and supported to fulfill their social should pay more attention to the social responsibility and obligations, and give full play responsibility with the local minority to the advantages in capital, awareness in talents characteristics, mainly including maintaining the and development, and management ideas, etc. national unity, promoting the prosperity and Specifically, these enterprises can help development, and protecting the ecological collaborative villages know well the environment in minority areas, etc. In recent development ideas, make work measures, make years, explorations on a model for the every effort to the co-development of social co-construction of mine villages in many places undertakings and the co-construction of of Yunnan province are worthy of reference and infrastructure, actively undertake poverty introduction. Therefore, the co-construction of alleviation work, and participate in social mine villages is necessarily used as an important construction and management by combining with way for the coal mining enterprises in Yunnan's their own development characteristics and the minority areas to fulfill social responsibility. actual needs of the collaborative villages. In recent years, explorations on a model for the Keywords: The Co-construction of Mine co-construction of mine villages in many places Villages; Minority Areas; Coal Mining of Yunnan province are worthy of reference and Enterprises; Social Responsibility introduction. Therefore, the co-construction of mine villages is necessarily used as an important 1. Introduction way for the coal mining enterprises in Yunnan's minority areas to fulfill social responsibility. Ethnic minority areas are rich in coal resources, and coal mining is often the most important industry in these areas and also one of the 2. The intension of the corporate social industries mainly providing labor employment. responsibilities of the coal mining For the minority areas with the backward enterprises in minority areas development of economy, the fulfillment of In a general sense, the social responsibilities social responsibility by coal mining enterprises is necessary for an enterprise to fulfill include of more important significance. In minority areas, economic responsibility, legal responsibility, necessary funding is in the greatest shortage, and ethical responsibility, environmental infrastructure construction and management responsibility, charity responsibility, etc. The services are hysteretic, while the coal mining indexes of the corporate social responsibility in © 2015. The authors - Published by Atlantis Press 973 different industry have characteristics of their sceneries, historical sites, and nature reserves in own industry, that is, the contents of a social minority areas are affected by the mining of coal responsibility are different based on the resources. Simultaneously, a series of other industrial characteristics, and some regional environmental problems, such as ground surface characteristics are necessarily considered by the subsidence, farmland aridity, village migration, enterprises in minority areas. For the coal mining buildings damage, land desertification, gangue enterprises in minority areas, they are necessary accumulation, surface water flow reduction, to focus on the social responsibilities with special drying groundwater water-supply source, and regional minority characteristics in addition to hazardous substances flowing into the performing the social responsibility in a broad underground water system, etc. sense. Performing the social responsibility can help 3. The co-construction of mine villages is an maintain the national unity. Coal mining has important way for the coal mining been a labor-intensive industry in which huge enterprises in minority areas to fulfill numbers of labors are employed in China. The social responsibilities great minority population has become the main force of extracting coal resources in minority The co-construction of mine villages is to unite areas. However, some coal mining enterprises coal mining enterprises, villages’ grass-root don't consider their social responsibilities for organizations, and the mass people into an pure pursuit of profit and economic efficiency so interest community under the guidance of the that harmonious circumstances affecting the government, and build a resource-conserving minority relations have emerged. In the minority "co-construction mechanism", environmental areas with the backward development of the friendly "co-protection mechanism", and economy, coal mine is not only an important development result "co-sharing mechanism". industry for the local labor employment and local 3.1 The co-construction of mine villages government finance income, but also the main promotes the coal mining enterprises in source of a miner family’s life. Along with the minority areas to better fulfill the social development of resources, the social problems responsibility of maintaining the national that can’t be ignored are caused along with the unity development of the economy. For example, the The "co-construction mechanism" for the geological hazards induced by mining are co-construction of mine villages connects the increasingly prominent, and the economic interests of the enterprises and the mass people development of the mining industry divorces around coal mines closely together, and thus, the from the income increase of the mass peoples in rights and interests of the people in minority diggings, so that ore cluster conflicts have been areas are better safeguarded. triggered. In Fuyuan County of Yunnan, a connected Performing the social responsibility can help support responsibility system has been protect the ecological environment in minority implemented, in which the coal mining areas. The environment of the coal mines in enterprises are mobilized to connect together minority areas is stable and harmonious before based on the "one-to-one" support model and the development of coal resources, but the help a natural village or a village committee frequently intense human activities have made according to the actual business management the surrounding environment greatly changed situation, so as to help the people in poverty after the development and construction, because villages solve the survival and development some human landscapes such as local landscape problems. Since 2007, the coal mining 974 enterprises in the country had donated 290 go-to-hospital difficulties, get-employed million yuan to help 240 poverty villages, get difficulties, transportation difficulties, housing involved in the construction of 495 key aided difficulties, cultural activities difficulties, and villages, move 1310 households of 25 natural domestic coal use difficulties, and ultimately villages, and solve the food and clothing create a good development environment for the problems of 95,500 absolute poverty population, construction of new countryside. and promote 139,000 low-income people to With the "co-sharing mechanism" for the increase income and become rich. The General co-construction of mine villages, the achieved Party Branch of Dumu Village’s committee in results can be shared in minority areas: Dongshan Town, Qinlin District, Qujing, benefiting-peasants industries are developed, Yunnan, made an overall plan with the coal subsidies to daily life are implemented, public mining enterprises in the construction of new facilities are improved, peasant’s income has socialist countryside by combining with the increased, and the new rural construction is actual local conditions, so that mine villages progressive. In recent years, there have been a were in co-construction, new industries were total of 152 mining enterprises to invest 134 fostered, and poverty villages became rich. A million yuan in building bituminous roads of professional grain source cooperative has been 120km and 41 water conservancy projects. 238 established in Dumu Village, in which pooling of mining enterprises invested 145 million yuan in land as shares is combined with corporate developing the social undertakings such as funding, the guidance of experts hired from the education, culture, and health care, among which external world is combined with the work of the 54 mining enterprises invested 69.934 million locally employed female workers, so as to solve yuan to participate in or independently completed the increase income difficulty of rural surplus the project construction of 49 schools. Especially, labors. Zhuyuan Xingfa Coking Plant placed a total investment 68 million yuan in the construction of 3.2 The co-construction of mine villages public welfare undertakings from 2003 and promotes the coal mining enterprises in another 32.6 million yuan in the construction of minority areas to better fulfill the social — responsibility