Many places continue to increase the intensity of coal supply guarantee, and the increase in production and supply in some links has begun to take effect.

Relevant departments, localities, and enterprises have recently accelerated the implementation of the decisions and deployments of the State Council executive meeting on ensuring the supply of electricity and coal, and further increased the efforts to ensure the supply of coal. The effect of increasing production and supply in some links and production areas has already appeared.

The National Development and Reform Commission announced on October 11 that, as of October 7, the number of power plants in the country that have stored coal for less than 7 days was 90% lower than before the holiday. The increase in inventory levels is attributable to the strengthening of contacts between the National Development and Reform Commission's Operation Bureau and relevant departments and enterprises in various regions during the National Day, close cooperation, tracking and dispatching changes in the daily supply and consumption of electricity and coal, dynamically grasping the demand for supply, and actively promoting power plants to increase coal Inventory, organize all localities to increase the coordination of power coal supply and transportation.

The reporter also learned that as of October 8, the coal inventory of power plants in the eight coastal provinces in China reached 19.25 million tons, and the average available days reached 10.5 days, an increase of nearly 2 million tons from September 20, and the average available days increased by 1.14 days.

According to data from third-party organizations, as of October 11, the four major ports in the Bohai Rim had a total of 18.829 million tons of coal. The inventory has shown a slight upward trend in the past few days, an increase of more than 3 million tons from a month ago.

The National Standing Committee held on October 8 requested that under the premise of ensuring safe production, coal mines with the potential to increase production should be promoted to release production capacity as soon as possible. The relevant main production areas have been actively implemented.

As of October 10, there were 229 coal mines in production in Ordos City, Inner Mongolia, with a daily output of 2.34 million tons, basically reaching the highest production level in October last year.

Shanxi has suffered severe floods recently, and many local coal mines continue to increase production and ensure supply. As the advanced production capacity of Shanxi's largest coal company Jinneng Holding Group, recently, the underground intelligent fully mechanized caving face of Tashan Coal Mine is in full swing to step up production. In addition, Jinneng Holding Group has implemented a number of mines to increase production and ensure supply, and actively organize the release of advanced production capacity. From October 4th to October 9th alone, Jinneng Holding Group issued additional 64,400 tons of coal to multiple power plants such as Jilin Changchun Second Thermal Power Company and Jinzhou Power Plant.

Yongtai Energy disclosed on the 10th that its Jintaiyuan Coal Mine and Sendayuan Coal Mine have been included in Shanxi Province's guaranteed coal mines, and it is expected to increase production by 225,000 tons in the fourth quarter of this year. At present, the company's coal mines and power enterprises are operating normally and the safety situation is good. The company will, in accordance with the requirements of the government authorities, tap the potential for increasing production and make every effort to increase production and supply under the premise of ensuring safety.

While increasing production, efforts to ensure supply are also increasing. On the afternoon of October 10th, 40 coal companies in Ordos and their counterparts in 18 provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities including Heilongjiang, Jilin, Liaoning and Tianjin, 63 coal companies, and 6 districts including Hohhot and Baotou Neimeng City respectively signed a medium- and long-term coal supply contract for the fourth quarter, and 15 coal companies signed agreements with five banner districts of Ordos City to ensure coal supply for heating in winter.

On the same day, the coal supply matchmaking meeting of Shanxi and Hubei provinces was held in Taiyuan. The relevant persons in charge of the energy bureaus of the two places and large coal enterprises in Shanxi attended the meeting. Relevant parties in Shandong Province also held a special meeting on energy and power supply guarantee work, analyzed the situation of energy and power supply guarantee in the whole province, and arranged the deployment of key tasks in the next step.