China's Coal Import up 37.4% in March

  • Tuesday, April 14, 2009
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Figures from the General Administration of Customs showed that China imported 5.72 million tonnes of coal in March, up 37.4 percent year on year.
 
The monthly amount also represented a 11.9 percent rise from February.
 
Analysts attributed the coal import rise to the recovering domestic demand and lower imported coal price compared with the domestically-produced coal.
 
China's electricity generation, a key indicator of the economic health, slipped 0.71 percent from a year ago to 286.73 billion kilowatt hours in March. It was slower than the year-on-year 3.7 percent decline in January and February, showing recovery signs, experts said. –Xinhua
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