Some 600 hundred Chinese miners are set to fly in to Queensland and work on Clive Palmer's $8 billion Galilee Basin coal development joint venture project with the Metallurgical Corporation of China (MCC).

Palmer said on Monday that most of the Chinese contract workers are engineers and would approximately compose of up to 10 percent of the coal mine's workforce, who are also set to establish a 500 kilometre railway and port that would serve the transport requirements of the mining site.

The Galilee Basin coal project, according to Palmer, would be mainly undertaken by MCC, which already paid $200 million to develop the mining site and its port and railway infrastructures.

Sub-contractors would also be tapped to work on the Queensland project and Palmer said that 60 percent of the work contracts would be awarded to offshore companies while the remaining 40 percent would be reserved to Australian contractors.

The same set up would be observed on Palmer's $5.2 billion Sino Iron project in Western Australia, where MCC is also the lead foreign firm contractor.

Palmer said on his Brisbane press conference that both the Queensland and Western Australia mining projects would maintain at least 10 percent of the workforce coming from China, highlighting the skills shortage that could hamper the country's resources boom over the coming few years.

The two projects are expected to generate at least 6000 new jobs during the construction phase and 1500 full-time jobs once the mining sites commence full operations.

However, the Galilee Basin project still requires the environmental approval of the Queensland government as Palmer hinted that he would work hard for state authorities to provide the necessary go ahead for the coal mine to proceed.

He admitted that Queensland authorities have the reputation of tough bureaucratic standards in approving environmentally-sensitive mining projects though he remains optimistic that the situation could change soon.

On her part, Queensland Premier Anna Bligh declared that Palmer's new project would be evaluated in the same manner that other mining proposals were required of, and that is to ensure that local jobs would be generated for local people.