China’s coal use was still up 1 per cent year-on-year in absolute terms as the country’s total energy consumption rose by 3.3% to 4.86 billion tonnes of standard coal equivalent.
Coal’s share of China energy mix falls to 57.7 per cent in 2019 BEIJING: Coal accounted for 57.7 per cent of China’s primary energy consumption in 2019, the National Bureau of Statistics said on Friday, down 1.5 percentage points from the previous year as Beijing achieved its goal of reducing coal’s share to below 58 per cent a year early.
China’s coal use was still up 1 per cent year-on-year in absolute terms as the country’s total energy consumption rose by 3.3 per cent to 4.86 billion tonnes of standard coal equivalent.
China’s carbon dioxide emissions per 10,000 yuan worth of GDP fell by 4.1 per cent percent last year, the bureau said.