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China scrambles to boost coal as winter looms, fuel demand peaks

It has to relax output controls or face higher fuel costs, say analysts

Published Wed, Oct 5, 2016 · 09:50 PM

Shanghai

CHINA'S efforts to shrink its bloated coal industry may have worked too well, too fast.

Prices have surged more than 50 per cent this year a…

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