记者从中国国土资源经济研究院日前发布的《2013年三季度国土资源管理形势分析与展望》报告中获悉,今年1~8月份,全国新设立探矿权727个,同比增长35.4%,其中55.3%的探矿权分布在西部省份,同比提高了11.5个百分点。报告称,这种趋势,表明我国矿产资源勘查向西部转移已经成功,未来,西部将是保障我国资源供给的战略基地。报告显示,截至今年8月底,我国有效勘查许可证存量33176个,总量减少的趋势已经趋缓,环比浮动变 Report from the China Academy of Land and Resources recently released << 2013 third quarter land resource management situation analysis and Outlook >> report was informed that from January to August this year, the country set up 727 new exploration rights, an increase of 35.4%, of which 55.3% Of the exploration rights distributed in the western provinces, an increase of 11.5 percentage points. The report said that this trend shows that China’s mineral resources exploration has been successfully transferred to the west. In the future, the western region will be the strategic base for safeguarding the supply of resources in our country. The report shows that as of the end of August this year, China’s effective exploration permit stock 33176, the trend of total reduction has slowed, the chain variable volatility