Coal is unloaded from a vessel berthed at a port in Lianyungang, Jiangsu province, on Oct 14, 2021. (WANG JIANMIN / FOR CHINA DAILY)

BEIJING – China's raw coal output sustained steady growth in May as policy measures to ensure energy supply and stabilize prices have taken effect, official data showed.

The output rose 10.3 percent year-on-year to 370 million tons last month, according to the National Bureau of Statistics.

The output rose 10.3 percent year-on-year to 370 million tons last month, according to the National Bureau of Statistics

The growth rate was 0.4 percentage points lower than that in April, the bureau said.

Coal imports shrank last month. China imported 20.55 million tons of coal in May, down 2.3 percent year on year.

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In the January-May period, the country's raw coal output rose 10.4 percent year on year to 1.81 billion tons, while imports dropped 13.6 percent to around 96 million tons, the data showed.