Compared with wet quenching, Mi said the new technique has economic and environmental benefits.

As a large coal supply base, Xinjiang aims to achieve coal output of more than 400 million tons by 2025.

They also said the industry will likely experience demand recovery to a certain extent in the coming months.

By the end of June, China's installed capacity for renewable energy had exceeded 1.1 billion kilowatts.

China's State Administration for Market Regulation has conducted investigations on activities of bidding up coal prices, the administration said Friday.

Major steel producers churned out a total of 20.79 million tonnes of crude steel in late July, the data showed.

According to the administration, China saw 190 mining accidents in the January-July period, down 14 percent year on year.

Hasan said that the exported steel would be used to establish a hospital in New Zealand.