Ban on Australian coal imports sees a DOZEN Chinese cities forced to ration electricity

[Neferti]

Ban on Australian coal imports sees a DOZEN Chinese cities forced to ration electricity - as factories have power cut and street lights are turned off

Beijing's blockade of Australian coal is backfiring, with a dozen cities forcing residents and office buildings to ration their electricity use.

The politically-inflicted situation is so bad street lights have been turned off in the city of Yiwu in China's eastern Zheijiang province as factories are down to part-time hours.

In the coastal city of Wenzhou, local Chinese Communist Party authorities have demanded businesses refrain from heating their office unless temperatures are close to freezing.

Southern China's Hunan Province is awash with reports on social media platform Weibo of workers in Changsha having to climb dozens of flights of stairs after elevators were shut down.

'I've never had so much trouble going to the office,' a Changsha-based office worker, who didn't wish to be named told the London-based Financial Times.

He was trapped in an elevator for 40 minutes last week because of a power shortage.

Despite the widespread media reports, Zhao Chenxin, the secretary general of China's National Development and Reform Commission, denied household electricity consumption had been affected in the adjoining Hunan, Zheigiang or Jiangxi provinces.

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[cods]

I feel for them!..

[sprintcyclist]

Coal is still a big producer of power worldwide.
It still has a long future

[Black Orchid]

The CCP doesn't care if their people suffer. That's who they are and what they do. Control at all costs.

[Nom De Plume]

Coal is still a big producer of power worldwide.
It still has a long future

Which is why I argue for Australia to use it's coal to smelt iron ore to make our own steel and then sell it on the market at a premium!

[sprintcyclist]

Coal is still a big producer of power worldwide.
It still has a long future

Which is why I argue for Australia to use it's coal to smelt iron ore to make our own steel and then sell it on the market at a premium!

It has been said China is still buying our iron ore as Brazil's ore output has stopped due to covid.
When Brazil starts to produce iron ore again we may lose some of the china iron ore market