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China: Extending Coal Banned

Beijing. China will extend the ban on burning the coal to the suburb area to overcome the air polution. China will forbid the sell and burn on coal with the high ash and sulphur.

National Energy Administration (NEA) will support the use of central heater and the supply of power of natural gas and renewable fuel to substitute the heater and power of low rank coal.

This ban is the continuous ban of using coal in six central district last year. This ban will happen on 2020. NEA said that the plant using coal will be replaced with natural gas or cleaner coal.

Recently, China has around 600.000 industrial plant using coal as its fuel. Mainly at the habitation area in north of China. The yearly level use of coal in China is at 3,7 million ton. The fuel of coal support the 66% of energy in China.