Central China’s Henan province began restructuring its coal industry, aimed at building three giant coal enterprises with an annual production capacity of 50 million tons by the end of this year, the local Zhengzhou Evening News reported.
According to the provincial government’s plan, key enterprises will control over 85 percent of Henan’s coal resource and account [...]
China plans to build a national renewable energy center to further support development of the industry, an energy official said yesterday.
The center will be responsible for policy-making, key project and program management, market and industrial operations, database and information platform establishment and international exchange program coordination, Han Wenke, director general of Energy Research Institute under [...]
China’s top economic planner, the National Development and Reform Commission, has approved the plan to build a 7.1-billion-ton coal mining region in Northwest China’s Gansu province, People’s Daily reported Monday.
Ningzheng mining region is located in eastern Gansu, covering an area of 1,100 square kilometers. The mining region was designed to produce 20 million tons of [...]
Australian coal and iron ore company Resourcehouse said over the weekend it had signed a record $60 billion coal supply deal with Chinese power stations, a move analysts said underscored Chinese companies’ growing demand for energy to fuel the country’s economic development.
Resourcehouse will supply 30 million tons of coal annually over 20 years to China [...]
Chinese State Councilor Liu Yandong has urged northern Shanxi Province, China’s main coal mining hub, to adopt low-carbon technologies.
Liu made the remarks during a recent investigation and study tour to Shanxi.
The province should make more efforts in developing environment-friendly and energy-efficient technologies in coal industry, such as technologies of coal liquefaction and gasification, Liu said.
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China’s power consumption would rise 7 percent this year if the country could maintain an 8-percent growth of economy, Wang Xudong, chief of the State Electricity Regulatory Commission (SERC), said on Monday.
Because the economy would continue to improve this year, the power consumption is expected to steadily increase to 3.9 trillion kilowatt-hours, a rise of [...]
