Industrial raw coal production slowed down in August

The output of raw coal is 320 million tons, up 5.0% year-on-year. The growth rate is 7.2% lower than that of last month. The latest data released by the National Bureau of Statistics on September 16 show that in August, the production of industrial raw coal above the scale of our country slowed down and the production of electric power accelerated.

According to statistics, in August, the output of raw coal was 320 million tons, an increase of 5.0% over the previous month, a drop of 7.2 percentage points; the average daily output was 101.19 million tons, a decrease of 200,000 tons over the previous month. From January to August, the output of raw coal was 2.41 billion tons, an increase of 4.5% over the same period last year.

In August, China imported 32.95 million tons of coal, an increase of 14.9% over the same period last year, an increase of 1.5 percentage points faster than last month. From January to August, coal imports amounted to 202.8 million tons, an increase of 8.1% over the same period last year. Coal prices were stable in August. On September 6th, the comprehensive trading price of Qinhuangdao's 5500 large-calorie coal was 569 yuan per ton, and that of 5000 large-calorie coal was 508 yuan per ton, down 8 yuan and 3 yuan respectively from the beginning of August, while that of 4500 large-calorie coal was 454 yuan per ton, which was the same as that of early August.

Electric power production has accelerated and clean power production has increased rapidly. In August, 668.2 billion kilowatt-hours of power generation increased by 1.7% year-on-year, 1.1 percentage points faster than last month; the average daily power generation was 21.56 billion kilowatt-hours, an increase of 360 million kilowatt-hours over last month. From January to August, 4.7 trillion kWh of electricity was generated, an increase of 2.8% over the same period last year.

From the point of view of sub-power supply , in August, the decline of thermal power was narrowed, the growth rate of hydropower dropped, the wind power turned from negative to positive, and the nuclear power and solar power generation accelerated. Thermal power decreased by 0.1% year on year, the decline narrowed by 1.5 percentage points compared with last month; hydropower increased by 1.6%, the growth rate fell by 4.7 percentage points compared with last month; wind power increased by 13.7%, the growth rate changed from negative to positive; nuclear power and solar power increased by 21.2% and 13.9%, respectively, accelerating by 3.0 and 0.7 percentage points.