The figure was an increase of 4.2 percent from the same period last year, the MCGA said in a statement.

The growth of China's raw coal production slowed down in August, data from the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) showed.

Of the total coal imports in July 2019, non-coking coal shipment was at 12.66 MT.

Production of raw coal was 316.02 million tons, up by 5% vs. the same period in 2018.

The country's coal output surged 12.2 percent year-on-year last month to 320 million tonnes.

According to latest data of the General Administration of Customs, China imported 24.01 million mt of coal in May 2014

According to statistic of China Customs, China totally import 2.76 millions of coal, dropping by 23% Y-O-Y.

China saw its coal imports edge down 0.9% year on year to 134.98 million tons in the first five months of this year, according to statistics released by the General Administration of Customs.