In the January-July period this year, China’s coke output reached 284.34 million mt, up 1.9 percent year on year, as announced by China's National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) on August 15.
In the first seven months this year, China’s raw coal output amounted to 2.67182 billion mt, rising by 3.6 percent year on year, 0.8 percentage points slower compared to the rise recorded in the January-June period. In the given period, China imported 260 million mt of coal, up 88.6 percent year on year.
In July this year, China imported 39.26 million mt of coal, up 66.9 percent year on year.
In July alone, China’s coke output and raw coal output totaled 40.43 million mt and 377.54 million mt, up 3.7 percent and 0.1 percent, respectively, year on year.