On February 28, the National Bureau of Statistics issued the Statistical Bulletin of the People's Republic of China on National Economic and Social Development in 2022. It showed that the total energy consumption in 2022 was 5.41 billion mt of standard coal, a year-on-year increase of 2.9%; Coal accounted for 56.2% of total energy consumption, a year-on-year increase of 0.3 percentage points. This is the first time since 2012 that the proportion of domestic coal consumption has rebounded.



