According to statistic released by the National Development and Reform Commission, Southwest China's Guizhou Province saw its coal output increase 18.7% YoY to 168 million tonne in the first eleven months of this year.

The figure accounted for 4.8% of the country's total coal output during the period.

From January to November 2012, the province saw its sales of commercial coal amount to 154 million metric tonne, up 12.8% than in the same period of last year.

As the end of last month, the coal enterprises in Guizhou Province had a total of 8.18 million metric tonne in coal inventory, up 136% from a year earlier.