China’s raw coal production rose 9.9% year on year to 290 million mt in April, National Bureau of Statistics data released Wednesday showed.

Over January-April, raw coal production rose 2.5% year on year to 1.11 billion mt.

Coal production rose 5% year on year in April in Shanxi, Inner Mongolia and Shaanxi, which account for 67% of China’s total coal production.

Output in Jiangxi, Hubei, Hunan and Chongqin, where medium to small miners are clustered, fell more than 30% over the same period.

China’s power generation in April rose 5.4% on year to 476.72 TWh, and over January-April rose 6.6% to 1,938.24 TWh.

NBS said thermal power generation rose 5.7% year on year to 352.18 TWh in April, but was down 2% from March, while hydro power generation was down 5.4% year on year at 74.34 TWh in April due to lower rainfall, but was still up from 72.5 TWh in March.

Source: Platts