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Xinjiang increases coal output by 25 pct in 2022 to ensure energy supply

January 28, 2023


Abstract : Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region posted strong growth in coal output in 2022 as it moved to ensure the country's energy supply.

Photo taken on July 7, 2021 shows the scene of coal loading at Huanghua port in Cangzhou, north China's Hebei Province. (Photo by Fu Xinchun/Xinhua)

URUMQI, Jan. 28 (Xinhua) -- Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region posted strong growth in coal output in 2022 as it moved to ensure the country's energy supply.

The region produced 400 million tonnes of raw coal last year, up 25 percent year on year, according to the Xinjiang regional development and reform commission.

Xinjiang is China's fourth-largest coal-producing region. Currently, it has a proven coal reserve of 450 billion tonnes, or one-fourth of the country's total, ranking second after Inner Mongolia.

Its output growth rates over the past two years far exceeded that of the three leading coal-producing regions of Shanxi, Shaanxi, and Inner Mongolia.

Boosted by higher coal prices and defying higher transportation costs, more coal was sent to other regions outside Xinjiang. A total of 80 million tonnes of coal was sold to other regions last year, nearly doubling the amount in 2021, according to the commission.

"Increasingly more coal mining companies are having their eyes on Xinjiang," said Zhang Kui, deputy general manager of Xinjiang Coal Trading Center Co., Ltd. Despite higher transportation costs, coal from Xinjiang is still competitive, he said.

Xinjiang is playing a bigger role in the country's efforts to ensure coal supply as authorities approved more new mine projects there.

In the 14th Five-Year Plan period (2021-2025), the region planned to increase its annual coal production capacity by at least 160 million tonnes to at least 460 million tonnes.

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