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Chinese coal production drops as environmental rules bite
2014-05-09 01:05:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BusinessGreen: China's coal industry could be facing an unprecedented slowdown, as new industry figures this week confirmed production fell last month by more than 1.3 per cent year on year. Local media reported data from the China Coal Industry Association (CCIA), which showed that coal production last month fell 1.31 per cent compared with the previous year, while sales dropped 1.29 per cent. Wang Xianzheng, director of the CCIA, told news agency Xinhua that the fall in demand had been driven by a combination...
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