China Cabinet urges to ensure coal supply
The supplies of coal, oil, gas, electricity and agricultural goods and materials must be ensured, according to an executive meeting of the State Council, China’s Cabinet, held on Wednesday.
The meeting, presided over by Premier Wen Jiabao, urged efforts to ensure coal, oil and electricity supplies firstly for the areas ravaged by the May 12 earthquake.
On the precondition of work safety, coal production should be resumed as soon as possible in quake-battered Sichuan Province, it said. Electricity transmission equipment and facilities should be repaired and restored as soon as possible to resume power supply in the quake-hit areas.
Coal and oil production should be increased nationwide to ensure supply in peak season. Enterprises of high energy consumption and high pollution should have their electricity supplies restricted.
The overall supply and demand for coal, oil, electricity and agricultural goods and materials are now in balance, with short supplies in some areas.
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