From the most to the least, energy is mainly consumed by the EU's industry sectors, transport, households, services and agriculture.

Major imported goods were coal, natural gas, agriculture products, and metal ore.

Despite this, the industrial structure of profits continue to improve, with the equipment manufacturing industry registering a rebound in profits for six consecutive months.

As the world transitions to more sustainable energy sources, using steel-armoured cables to connect to areas of high sun activity could be the key to a shared, solar-powered future.

Diversified miner Rio Tinto has set out its production growth and decarbonisation targets in an investor seminar.

BRICS is the acronym for an emerging-market bloc that groups Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa.

The province's total import and export value from January to October hit 282.46 billion yuan ($39.73 billion), up 16.4 percent year-on-year.

Among them, Inner Mongolia imported 19.13 billion yuan of coal from Mongolia, up 150.1 percent year-on-year.