In the January-April period this year, China’s coke output reached 161.71 million mt, up 3.7 percent year on year, as announced by China's National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) on May 16.
In the first four months this year, China’s raw coal output amounted to 1.53 billion mt, rising by 4.8 percent year on year, 0.7 percentage points slower compared to the increase recorded in the January-March period. In the given period, China imported 140 million mt of coal, up 88.8 percent year on year.
In April this year, China imported 40.68 million mt of coal, up 72.7 percent year on year.
In April alone, China’s coke output and raw coal output totaled 41.29 million mt and 381.45 million mt, up 2.3 percent and 4.5 percent year on year, respectively.