(China Coal Transportation and Marketing Association: focus on monitoring the month-on-month decline and year-on-year growth of coal enterprise output in the first and middle of April)-according to a report released by the China Coal Transportation and Marketing Association, in the first and middle of April, coal production, sales, and transportation in coal enterprises are higher than those in the same period last year, but due to relatively low downstream demand, coal supply has declined to varying degrees compared with the same period in March. In April, with the end of heating in northern China and the weakening of seasonal demand, thermal power generation was significantly lower than that in the first quarter, but due to continued poor hydropower output, thermal power continued to maintain a high year-on-year growth rate; blast furnace operating rate remained high, pig iron output and coal consumption in key monitoring coke steel enterprises rebounded. Coal producing area inventory is at a high level, affected by Daqin line maintenance and other factors, transit port inventory fell, but still remained sufficient; steel coke enterprise user inventory decreased. Coal prices at home and abroad fluctuated downward as a whole.