China's Coal Output Grows in May, an Industrial Info Market Brief

China's coal output amounted to 310 million metric tons in May, an increase of 3.5% year over year, and 3.4 percentage points higher than output in April, according to China's National Bureau of Statistics. For the first five months of this year, coal output was 1.42 billion metric tons, up 0.9% over the same period in 2018.