In recent years, global coal production has been fluctuating and increasing, and coal remains the main source of global electricity. In 2023, China's raw coal production reached 4.71 billion tons, a year-on-year increase of 3.4%; China's coal imports reached 474 million tons, a year-on-year increase of 61.8%. Both coal production  and imports hit a new all-time high, ranking first in the world. The capacity for securing the basic coal supply continued to strengthen, providing reliable support for  China's and even the world's economic and social development. At present, as the core technological support for the high-quality development of the coal industry,  the intelligentization of coal mines is a new stage of comprehensive mechanization and informatization development of coal mines, a new direction for the revolution  of coal productivity and production mode, and the "fourth important technology change". It is of great immediate significance to rely on the location advantage of  Shanghai as an international metropolis and the global market trade foundation to hold the 2025 World Coal Science and Technology Innovation Conference and  Global Coal Industry Expo, lead China's coal mining equipment to go out of China and go global, promote the safe, intelligent, green, and efficient development of  global coal mines, and propel the high-quality development of the global coal industry.