The volume jumped 42.9 percent compared with the 2019 level, putting the average Jan-Aug growth for 2020 and 2021 at 19.5 percent.

The August output represented a 0.7 percent increase compared with the same period in 2019, the NBS said.

Work teams have been dispatched to Beijing, Tianjin, Hebei, eastern Inner Mongolia, Heilongjiang and Hunan, the National Energy Administration (NEA) said.

Iron ore price up despite Chinese power curbs

Iron ore price up despite Chinese power curbs

...starting from the fourth quarter of this year, except for the projects whose contracts the bank has already signed.

Factories usually attract many orders before the Christmas and New Year holidays, he said.

Four 400,000-ton vessels carrying iron ore were unloaded at the Leizhou peninsula terminal on Friday, Zhanjiang Port Group Co announced.