An open day to showcase operations, COVID-19 pandemic prevention and control measures and resumption of work at the De Aar wind power project, South Africa's largest wind power project, was held on Aug 10.

These restrictions are expected to weigh on industrial activity and curtail power demand and generation further, Icra said.

January-June imports fell by 13pc from a year earlier to 20.84mn t.

With the No 1 unit of the 2x600 megawatt Hai Duong coal-fired power plant project officially commissioned in Vietnam late last month.

On August 14, Liugang shares announced that they are planning to increase the capital by cash according to the legal procedures for Guangxi Liuzhou Iron and Steel Group Co., Ltd.

China's producer prices continued to fall in July but the decline has kept narrowing as economic activities recovered amid effective epidemic control in the country, official data showed Monday.

Some 71.7 billion yuan (about $10.33 billion) has been invested in the region's power grid development during the 2016-2020 period, the company said.

The trade volume from January to May totaled 172 billion yuan ($24.3 billion), an increase of 21.1 percent over the same period last year.