china's power use up 7.4% in march -即嗨体育app下载

china's electricity consumption, a key barometer of economic activity, recorded robust expansion in march 2024, official data showed wednesday.

power use climbed 7.4 percent year on year to 794.2 billion kilowatt-hours last month, according to the national energy administration.

specifically, power consumed by primary and secondary industries expanded by 7 percent and 4.9 percent year on year, respectively. power used by the tertiary sector went up 11.6 percent.

china's residential power use in march registered a 15.8 percent increase from the same period last year, the data revealed.

in the first quarter of 2024, the country's power use increased by 9.8 percent to nearly 2.34 trillion kilowatt-hours.