自2003年8月11日开始,在短短7天时间里山西省大同市杏儿沟煤矿、阳泉煤业集团公司三矿裕公井、晋中市左权县辽阳镇河南村办矿相继发生特大瓦斯爆炸事故,造成98人死亡,给国家和人民生命财产造成重大损失,也使全省煤矿安全生产蒙上一层难以拂去的阴影。为迅速扭转全省煤矿安全生产的被动局面,杜绝重特大事故再度发生,山西省人民政府于8月18日左权事故发生的当晚,立即召开了全省煤矿安全生产紧急电话会议,下令全省除大同煤矿集团公司、山西焦煤集团公司、潞安矿业集团公司、晋城无烟煤业集团公司4个国有重点煤矿外,其余4000余座煤矿从8月19日零时起一律停产整顿一周。如今停产时限已过,复产工作也早已安排,但全省复产矿井屈指可数,甚至有的地市一座矿井也没有正式恢复 Since August 11, 2003, in just 7 days, the Ordovician mine in Datong City, Shanxi Province, Yangquan Coal Mine Group Corporation three wells, Jinzhong City, Zuoquan County, Liaoyang Town, Henan Village mine have occurred particularly large Gas explosion, killing 98 people, causing great loss of lives and property for the country and people, but also to cast a shadow over the province’s coal mine production safety is difficult to flicker. In order to promptly reverse the passive situation of the province’s coal mine safety production and eliminate the recurrence of major accidents, Shanxi Provincial People’s Government immediately held the emergency telephone conference on coal mine production safety in the evening of August 18, Datong Coal Mine Group Corporation, Shanxi Coking Coal Group Corporation, Lu’an Mining Group, Jincheng Anthracite Coal Group 4 state-owned key coal mines, the remaining 4,000 coal mines from August 19 at 0 o’clock all the suspend production for rectification a week. Now the deadline for the suspension has expired, and the re-production work has already been arranged for a long time. However, there are only a handful of mines in the province that have not been officially resumed