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Coal Cuts

The share of coal in China’s energy mix will drop to less than 56 percent this year, a guideline released by the National Energy Administration (NEA) on April 22 read.

The proportion was 56.8 per-cent in 2020, and 57.7 percent in 2019.

In 2021, China plans to further replace coal in final energy consumption with the electricity equivalent of 200 billion kWh, the document said.

Meanwhile, its energy production is expected to reach the equivalent of 4.2 billion tons of standard coal this year, while the outputs of oil and natural gas

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