Since the middle of March, the domestic coal prices rose slightly for seven consecutive weeks. At the same time, by the world economic recovery is slow and international coal demand downturn, international power prices are way down. While the electric enterprises also pay attention to import coal price advantage, further increase in coal imports.

Bulk product platform of electronic business affairs analyst Zhang Zhibin said, since last year China surpassed Japan to become the first big country of consumption of coal, in addition to Indonesia, Vietnam, the United States this year, South Africa also has expanded to China 's coal export volume, the national price of power coal in large numbers into further lower import prices. But also in other regions of decreased consumption situation, China as a major international coal dumping goods place, putting extra coal price to Chinese buyers.

With the increasing number of imported coal, the Chinese coal market impact are also more and more can not be ignored. Li Zhaolin thinks, in coal demand is still low, a large number of low-priced imports of coal into the aggravate home situation of supply exceeding demand, increase domestic coal sales pressure, compressed the profit space of domestic coal prices. Specifically, it will affect the southeast coastal coal demand, then the port of transshipment price pressures, the final of the domestic coal prices rise formation is suppressed, so the Bohai coal prices after seven consecutive weeks after rising to go flat. In the later period, imports of coal and domestic coal between the game will be carried out, and the formation of a new price equilibrium.