Northwestern China's Ningxia Hui autonomous region produced 94.92 million tonnes of raw coal from January to November, rising 4.7% year on year (YoY), accelerating 0.1 percentage point from the growth over January-October, showed data from the local statistics bureau.

Production of coking bituminous coal decreased 9.5% YoY to 4.5 million tonnes; other bituminous coal stood at 89.6 million tonnes, up 5.8% YoY, data showed. Anthracite output decreased 21.1% YoY to 737,900 tonnes.

In the first eleven months of this year, Ningxia's raw coal sales stood at 46.94 million tonnes, down 1.8% YoY.

By the end of November, the region held 4.09 million tonnes of raw coal stocks, which could cover 29 days of usage.

Ningxia's electricity production reached 214.15 TWh during January-November, up 2.6% YoY, narrowing 0.2 percentage points compared to that over January-October.

Thermal power generation, mainly coal fired, was 155.79 TWh in the first eleven months, up 0.5% YoY, while renewables generation (hydro, wind, solar) came in at 59.02 TWh, rising 8.5% YoY.