Binh Duong’s exports rake in 24.5 billion USD in nine months

Steel producer’s exports double in September

Binh Duong’s exports rake in 24.5 billion USD in nine months

The volume jumped 42.9 percent compared with the 2019 level, putting the average Jan-Aug growth for 2020 and 2021 at 19.5 percent.

At the same time, the supply of hydropower and wind power decreases in winter, and cannot fill the gap left by the reduction in thermal power.

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

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

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