Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, as the country’s largest coal producer, produced 979 million tonnes of raw coal in the whole of 2011, 25.1% more than that in 2010.

Shanxi province came in second, with 870 million tonnes of coal produced, up 17.7% from a year ago.

In December alone, raw coal output in Inner Mongolia stood at 76 million tonnes, increasing 17% compared with the same month of last year.

(Source: www.steelhome.cn/en)
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