Development Status of Coal Industries in the world’s major coal-producing countries

Authors

  • liu xinjie State Key Laboratory of Water Resource Protection and Utilization in Coal Mining
  • song gaofeng North China University of Technology

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17159/

Abstract

Due to the development of shale gas and other renewable energy, as well as the demand for a cleaner and sustainable energy mix, the global coal industry has gone through a significant change in recent years. In order to understand the current development status of the world’s coal industry, this paper has analyzed the coal production and consumption, coal import and export, and coal prices in China and other major coal producing countries in the world during the past 3.5 decades.

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Author Biographies

  • liu xinjie, State Key Laboratory of Water Resource Protection and Utilization in Coal Mining

    Liu Xinjie was born February 16, 1986 in Heze City, Shandong province. He earned his bachelor's degree and master's degree of mining engineering from Shandong University of Science and Technology in 2009 and 2012. He received his doctoral degree of mining engineering at China University of Mining and Technology (Beijing) in 2015. After that he started his postdoctoral work in Peking University until 2017. With that he began study on ecological degradation by coal mining in State Key Laboratory of Water Resource Protection and Utilization in Coal Mining.

  • song gaofeng, North China University of Technology

    Gaofeng Song is a Lecturer in the School of Civil Engineering at the North China University of Technology. He received his PhD in Mining Engineering at the China University of Mining and Technology Beijing in 2017. He was a visiting scholar in the Mining and Mineral Resources Engineering Department at Southern Illinois University from Aug. 2014 to Aug. 2016. His teaching interests and research area include mining engineering, rock mechanics, mine subsidence, face failures and control on longwall faces, and numerical modeling in ground control.

Published

2026-04-15

Issue

Vol. 124 No. 8 (2024): SAIMM Journal

Section

Papers of General Interest

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