Electrical consumption reached more than 525.27 billion kilowatt-hours in the first eight months this year, up 17.33 percent year-on-year.

The August output represented a 0.7 percent increase compared with the same period in 2019, the NBS said.

China will take key measures to ensure stable energy supplies this winter and next spring, the country's top economic regulator said on Wednesday.

Iron ore price up despite Chinese power curbs

Iron ore price up despite Chinese power curbs

...starting from the fourth quarter of this year, except for the projects whose contracts the bank has already signed.

"As more measures are expected from the authorities to secure power coal supplies and frustrate the coal price surge, the situation will be reversed."

Factories usually attract many orders before the Christmas and New Year holidays, he said.