Power transmission lines Photo: CFP

Northeast China's Jilin Province vowed to increase the amount of coal used for ensuring local power supply by multiple measures including releasing more domestic coal output and enlarging the coal import scale, Jilin Province Governor Han Jun said during his inspection of local power plants on Monday, according to the Jilin government's official WeChat account. 

Besides securing cross-provincial coal supply from Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, Han mentioned that all necessary measures should be taken to increase the imports from Russia, Mongolia and Indonesia. 

Industry observers noticed that the Jilin import solution to the power shortage has excluded Australia which once was a major steam coal supplier of China.

Coal purchasing from markets home and abroad will be boosted by related supporting policies and more coal storage facilities will be built, according to Han.

The governor ordered power plants to maintain stable power generation at all costs and set meeting the residential power usage as their priority. Han noted that local financial firms should also support power plants including offering loans and subsidies.

Global Times