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

Work teams have been dispatched to Beijing, Tianjin, Hebei, eastern Inner Mongolia, Heilongjiang and Hunan, the National Energy Administration (NEA) said.

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.

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

Four 400,000-ton vessels carrying iron ore were unloaded at the Leizhou peninsula terminal on Friday, Zhanjiang Port Group Co announced.

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