Energy supply

THE National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) said Tuesday it had sent out teams to regions, companies and ports to ensure that energy supply and price stabilization measures had been implemented.

It did not specify where the supervision teams, which it jointly dispatched with the National Energy Administration, had been sent to. However, it said their work was manly on-site supervision and included a focus on implementing policies to increase coal production and supply. In a separate statement, the NDRC lowered the minimum coal inventory power producers are required to keep during peak demand season to seven days, and a maximum at 12 days worth of use.

Mobile gaming market

THE country’s mobile gaming market recorded growth in revenue in August, data from an industry report showed.

The sales revenue in the market reached about 19.24 billion yuan (US$2.98 billion) in August, up 8.17 percent year on year, according to the report released by CNG, a research institute on the gaming industry.

Motorcycle exports

SOUTHWEST China’s Chongqing Municipality saw its motorcycle exports up 52.3 percent year on year to reach 2.39 million units in the first seven months, official statistics showed.

The exports value of motorcycles of the city, dubbed as “the capital of motorcycles,” hit 8.33 billion yuan, up 58.7 percent year on year, according to the Chongqing Municipal Commission of Commerce.

Xu Xincheng, deputy director of the commission, said that the local government will support enterprises in machinery and electronic products such as motorcycles to expand the international market through online and offline fairs and cross-border e-commerce.