GLOBAL China’s coal production achieves double-digit growth for four consecutive months: official data
Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region accounted for 80.9 percent of the total output, according to data from the National Energy Administration on Wednesday.
China’s coal production has maintained a strong momentum since the beginning of 2022, with the domestic output of raw coal from January to April reaching a 10.5 percent year-on-year growth and achieving a double-digit growth for four consecutive months, new official data showed.
The National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), China’s top economic planner, has been strengthening supervision and implementing targeted policies to ensure a stable energy supply and prices.
Among the 10.5 percent growth, the production from the nation’s major coal producing provinces and regions including Northwest China’s Shaanxi Province and Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, North China’s Shanxi Province and
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Officials from the NDRC held a video conference recently with a number of coal enterprises in Shanxi on the back of pricing coal sales prices exceeding a reasonable range, the NDRC said on Wednesday. Involved enterprises have made written commitments on strict implementation of relevant policies and keeping the coal prices within the normal range.
