China's Coal Output to Exceed 2 Billion Tons This Year

October 26, 2005

Due to China’s economic and industrial boom, China will consume an estimated two billion tons of coal for primary energy in 2006. This coal consumption is double that of only five years ago.  If the pollution is unchecked this coal could annually produce sixty million tons of sulfur dioxide (which contributes to acid rain), twenty million tons of nitrogen oxide (which contributes to smog), five billion tons of carbon dioxide (which contributes to global warming) and one hundred and thirty tons of mercury (which is an extremely toxic poison).

Airborne Clean Energy can take the unchecked pollution and virtually eliminate it. Using our clean coal technologies we can filter the pollution out of the environment and produce a useful byproduct: fertilizer (ammonium sulfate).

The following is the relative information from the article “China's Coal Output to Exceed 2 Billion Tons This Year” by Xinhua.

China's coal output this year is to exceed 2 billion tons; Vice President Pu Hongjiu of the China Coal Industry Association was quoted by the Economic Daily as saying at the second meeting of the Sino-Australian Coal Summit.
Compared with coal production of almost 1 billion tons in 2000, the coal output in the country has doubled in the five years, with the annual growth rate averaging 16 percent, Pu said.

In 2004, China's coal output was 1.956 billion tons.
In the same year, the sales revenue of China's major coal enterprises reached 420.4 billion yuan (51.9 billion US dollars), 2.46 times than that in 2000, which stood at 121.4 billion yuan (14.96 billion US dollars), according to the Economic Daily.
China's soaring energy demand in recent years has made the formerly depreciating coal industry profitable, with profits totaling 41.8 billion yuan (5.15 billion US dollars) in 2004, the newspaper said.

In 2004, 31 enterprises in China witnessed their crude coal output exceeding 10 million tons, with Shenhua Group ranking first, whose coal production exceeded 120 million tons.
In 2004, China's primary energy production amounted to 1.845 billion tons of coal equivalent (TCE) and the total consumption of energy reached 1.97 billion TCE. Some 94 percent of China's energy consumption depends on its own supply, with an external dependency rate standing merely at 6 percent.

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