China's Coal Output Up 4.2% in 2019, an Industrial Info Market Brief

In December 2019, China's coal output reached 330 million metric tons (MMT), an increase of 2.4% year over year, which was 2.1 percentage points lower than the previous month. In 2019, China's accumulative coal output reached 3.75 billion metric tons, an increase of 4.2% year over year, according to the National Bureau of Statistics of China. In December, China's import of coal dropped 72.9% year over year. In 2019, China's accumulative coal import reached 300 MMT, an increase of 6.3%.