Nine coal companies were included in the list of China's Top 500 Brands 2022, according to market research company AskCI Consulting.

Now, nearly 90 pairs of heavy-haul trains make round trips along the Daqin Railway every day, said the China Railway Taiyuan Group Co., Ltd.

Australian resources firm BHP and Japanese trading house Mitsubishi plan to sell the 12mn t/yr Blackwater and 2.5mn t/yr Daunia mines from their BHP Mitsubishi Alliance (BMA) joint venture in Queensland.

The consumption of hard coal in Finland increased by 10 percent in 2022 year-on-year, Statistics Finland said on Wednesday citing preliminary data.

The Lanka Coal Company needs 2 million metric tons of coal annually, or 33 ship loads, to manage energy needs, he said.

This year, Inner Mongolia will also step up the clean and efficient use of coal, Wang said.

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.

China's raw coal output posted stable expansion in December 2022, official data showed.