China coal output up 4.5% in April

BEIJING -- China's raw coal output posted stable expansion in April, official data showed.

The country produced 380 million metric tons of raw coal last month, up 4.5 percent year-on-year, according to the National Bureau of Statistics.

In the first four months of 2023, the output was 4.8 percent higher than a year earlier at 1.53 billion tons, said the bureau.

China's coal imports rose during the January-April period. The country imported a total of 140 million tons of coal, up 88.8 percent compared with the same period of 2022, the data revealed.