{"id":439710,"date":"2021-10-04T09:11:48","date_gmt":"2021-10-04T03:41:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=439710"},"modified":"2021-10-04T10:11:38","modified_gmt":"2021-10-04T04:41:38","slug":"china-orders-top-energy-companies-to-secure-supplies-at-all-costs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/china-orders-top-energy-companies-to-secure-supplies-at-all-costs\/","title":{"rendered":"China orders top energy companies to secure supplies at all costs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>China\u2019s central government officials ordered the country\u2019s top state-owned energy companies \u2014 from coal to electricity and oil \u2014 to secure supplies for this winter at all costs, according to people familiar with the matter.<\/p>\n<p>The order came directly from Vice Premier Han Zheng, who supervises the nation\u2019s energy sector and industrial production, and was delivered during an emergency meeting earlier this week with officials from Beijing\u2019s state-owned assets regulator and economic planning agency, the people said, asking not to be named discussing a private matter. Blackouts won\u2019t be tolerated, the people said.<\/p>\n<p>Chinese coal futures on Thursday surged to a record as the country grapples with shortages of the fuel ahead of a week-long holiday. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China\u2019s central government officials ordered the country\u2019s top state-owned energy companies \u2014 from coal to electricity and oil \u2014 to secure supplies for this winter at all costs, according to people familiar with the matter. The order came directly from Vice Premier Han Zheng, who supervises the nation\u2019s energy sector and industrial production, and was delivered during an emergency meeting earlier this week with officials from Beijing\u2019s state-owned assets regulator and economic planning agency, the people said, asking not to be named discussing a private matter. Blackouts won\u2019t be tolerated, the people said. Chinese coal futures on Thursday surged to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,130,232],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-439710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-power-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=439710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439710\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=439710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}