Coal is Mongolia's main export commodity.

A total of 104 coal mines in Shanxi have applied for increasing their production capacity this year.

The October output represented 5.5-percent growth from the same period in 2019, the NBS said.

In the first half of 2021, the Queensland shipped 99.65 million tonnes of coal.

The increase took overall shipments for the last year to 407mn, slightly higher than a government-set target for the year of 400mn t.

China's raw coal output expanded by 0.9 percent year on year in 2020.

In 2020, the output of raw coal above Designated Size in China reached 3.84 billion tons.

China has sent a strong signal that it will ramp up efforts to curb carbon emissions with a vow to include climate impact in the nation's environmental impact assessment.