China's open-pit coal mines churned out 1.06 billion tonnes of coal in 2022, marking the first time surpassing the threshold of 1 billion tonnes, according to a report from People Daily.
By the end-2022, China has a total of 357 opencast mines, with overall production capacity combined at 1.16 billion tonnes and average capacity at 3.25 million tonnes per annum, tripling that of underground mines.
In 2022, open-cut coal mines, representing only 8% of China's aggregate in number, contributed to around 23% of China's total coal output, pushing the production share up 19 percentage points from 2000 level.
The number and production capacity of open-cast mines in Inner Mongolia and Xinjiang took up 75% and 85% of the country's total.
(Writing by Rebecca Liu Editing by Emma Yang)
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