China further improved the concentration of its coal industry last year, thanks to efforts made to consolidate small mines and enhance capacity and competitiveness of large groups.<br /> <br /> By the end of 2013, the number of coal mines operating in China more than halved to 12,000 from 25,000 in 2005, according to China National Coal Association (CNCA).<br /> <br /> Among them, there were 50 coal mines each with production capacity above 10Mtpa, which produced 17% of the national total output; more than 850 coal mines each with production capacity above 1.2Mtpa contributed 65% of the country’s total, up 29.3 percentage points from 2005; those with production capacity below 0.3Mtpa yielded less than 16% of the country’s total.<br /> <br /> China’s 14 large coal production bases produced some 3.4 billion tonnes of coal or 92% of China’s total output in 2013, an official with the CNCA said.<br /> <br /> In 2013, leading producing provinces including Inner Mongolia, Shanxi, Shaanxi, Guizhou, Henan, Shandong, Xinjiang, Anhui and Yunnan all produced more than 100 million tonnes, combined accounting for 83% of the national total.<br /> <br /> The five 50-million-tonne-level provinces of Hebei, Ningxia, Heilongjiang, Hunan and Liaoning contributed 10% of China’s total coal output, the CNCA said.<br /> <br /> <p> By the end of 2013, China had eight 100Mpta-level coal enterprises that produced 37% of the national total in 2013, including Shenhua, China Coal, Datong Coal Mine, Shandong Energy, Jizhong Energy, Shaanxi Coal and Chemical Industry, Henan Energy and Shanxi Coking Coal.&nbsp; </p> <p style="text-align:center;"> <img src="/upfiles/news/image/20140208/20140208162903_2782.jpg" alt="" /> </p> &nbsp;<br />