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A man wearing a face mask pulls a cart on a street amid a heatwave warning, following the coronavirus disease outbreak in Shanghai, China July 13, 2022.A man wearing a face mask pulls a cart on a street amid a heatwave warning, following the coronavirus disease outbreak in Shanghai, China July 13, 2022.

Power generation reached 27.854 billion kilowatt hours on the same day, Li Yunqing, director of the Operation Bureau at the National Development and Reform Commission told a news briefing. Overall power demand from China is forecast to grow much more slowly in 2022 than normal years, due to lockdowns and restrictions on movement during COVID-19 outbreaks.

Last year, lower domestic coal production and a drop in hydropower generation led to a weeks-long power crunch that hit manufacturing across the world’s No. 2 economy.

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