Last year, Shanxi provided 620 million tonnes of thermal coal for another 24 provincial-level regions in China, according to the provincial statistics bureau.

A steady rise in industrial electricity use in recent years has left utilities in India, one of the world's fastest growing major economies and the second-largest coal consumer and importer, with limited leeway to confront extraordinary demand or hiccups in su...

Sound preparedness for spring plowing and sowing will be made, and provision of fertilizers and other agricultural supplies as well as related services ensured, to further promote grain production and firm up the basis for price stability.

Average monthly output of coal produced by the company has been around 50 million tons during the past 15 months, he added.

The figure includes 30 million tons of crude oil and more than 5.5 billion cubic meters of natural gas, according to Daqing Oilfield.

The country's greenhouse gas emissions stagnated at around 761 million metric tons of CO2 in 2022. For the second year in a row, Germany fell short of its reduction target of 40 percent compared to the reference year 1990.

The bureau predicted that whole-year coal output is expected to surpass 1.3 billion tons.

Ganqmod Port, a major energy import channel for the country, has become an important hub on the China-Mongolia-Russia economic corridor.