China's Power Consumption Up 1.9% in April 2016

BEIJING--May 23, 2016--Researched by Industrial Info Resources (Beijing, China)--According to an announcement this month from China's National Energy Administration, in April of this year, the country's social power consumption reached about 456.9 billion kilowatt-hours (kWh), an increase of 1.9% from the same period of last year, which was 3.7 percent points lower than the previous month. From January to April 2016, China's overall social power consumption reached about 1,809.3 billion kWh, up 2.9% from the same time in 2015, while the growth in the same period of last year was up 1.1%.

Within this article: Also includes data from the Instant Statistic Report of the National Bureau of Statistics of China