{"id":498704,"date":"2022-06-15T22:22:27","date_gmt":"2022-06-15T16:52:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=498704"},"modified":"2022-06-16T22:22:58","modified_gmt":"2022-06-16T16:52:58","slug":"china-may-coal-output-jumps-13-per-cent-on-year-amid-govt-push-to-boost-supply","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/china-may-coal-output-jumps-13-per-cent-on-year-amid-govt-push-to-boost-supply\/","title":{"rendered":"China May coal output jumps 13 per cent on year amid govt push to boost supply"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>China&#8217;s daily coal output in May jumped 13 per cent from a year earlier, statistics showed on Wednesday, as Beijing moved to increase production to ensure sufficient energy supply.<\/p>\n<p>China, the world&#8217;s top coal producer, mined 367.83 million tonnes of the fuel in May, equivalent to 11.87 million tonnes a day, data from the National Bureau of Statistics showed.<\/p>\n<p>This was up from 10.53 million tonnes a day a year before, but down from 12.09 million tonnes a day in April, and below March&#8217;s record of 12.77 million tonnes a day.<\/p>\n<p>Production over January-May was 1.81 billion tonnes, 10.4 per cent higher than in the same five-month period last year, according to the data.<\/p>\n<p>The government aims to boost daily coal output above 12.6 million tonnes and build a national inventory of 620 million tonnes to guarantee supply. It has urged coal miners to step up production and has taken measures to stabilise prices of domestic coal.<\/p>\n<p>Despite rising coal production, demand from industry and power plants remained flat in May, amid weeks-long lockdowns and shutdowns of many types of factories and businesses due to COVID-19 curbs.<\/p>\n<p>May power generation fell 3.3 per cent, with thermal power output dropping 10.9 per cent from a year before, according to the statistics data.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China&#8217;s daily coal output in May jumped 13 per cent from a year earlier, statistics showed on Wednesday, as Beijing moved to increase production to ensure sufficient energy supply. China, the world&#8217;s top coal producer, mined 367.83 million tonnes of the fuel in May, equivalent to 11.87 million tonnes a day, data from the National Bureau of Statistics showed. This was up from 10.53 million tonnes a day a year before, but down from 12.09 million tonnes a day in April, and below March&#8217;s record of 12.77 million tonnes a day. Production over January-May was 1.81 billion tonnes, 10.4 per [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[131],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-498704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coal"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498704","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\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=498704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498704\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=498704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=498704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=498704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}