It is not optimistic for the coal resource and its exploration, since the maintenance of coal resource is shrinking and the constraint for the development of economic society is becoming more and more obvious. It is very necessary to carry out the research on sustainable development of the coal industry. This article puts forward an index evaluation system for sustainable development of coal industry composed by three levels and 24 indexes, builds an evaluation model for it and comprehensively evaluates the level of sustainable development of the coal industry in Henan based on it.
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