China has full confidence in ensuring adequate energy supply.

China has made considerable progress in speeding up coal production and resumption of work to contain the novel coronavirus pneumonia.

China has full confidence to guarantee the energy supply and ensure that work resumes smoothly, the country's top economic regulator said on Sunday.

"In the third quarter, I think you'll see a meaningful rebound aided by measures taken by the central bank," he told China Daily.

China has resumed 70.2 percent of its coal production capacity with output recovering steadily amid the fight against the novel coronavirus epidemic.

China's energy supply can meet demand despite disruptions caused by the outbreak of a new strain of the coronavirus, statistics released Friday by the National Energy Administration (NEA) showed.

North China's Shanxi Province recorded 144.69 billion yuan (about 20.75 billion U.S. dollars) in imports and exports in 2019, up 5.7 percent from the previous year, local customs authorities said Tuesday.

EUROFER announced that real steel consumption in EU fell by 1.6% YoY in the third quarter of 2019 and stood at 38.5 million tonnes.