At present, Guangdong, Guangxi, Hainan and other provinces (autonomous regions) of imported coal support almost 1/3 of sea coal transferred to the amount of these areas. A source close to the authorities of the Ministry of Transportation, said the Ministry of Transportation of the State Council, within the framework of international trade rules to control non-normal increase in coal imports policy recommendations. To give full play to the role of the coal mines, railways, port and shipping, maritime, customs and other co-located mechanism, and strengthen the production and transportation converge. 

Since early May, Qinhuangdao port coal field inventory rapid increase in the June inventory is substantially rapid increase from 7.77 million tons in early June, quickly climbed to a record high of 9.46 million tons on June 19, nearly 10 million tons the limit. Recently, although a slight decrease, but remain high, stockpiling a very large pressure. 

Not just in Qinhuangdao, Caofeidian, Huanghua, and even some of the loading and unloading Hong Kong, in Guangdong power plant are filled with coal. The national key coal coal storage in the number of days over 28 days, some power plants and even to 50 days. Excess stored coal power plants, there have been a key coal contracts phenomenon of electric power enterprises breach, Qinhuangdao Port thermal coal no one cares about, is also reasonable. Qinhuangdao Port Authority statistics show that average daily ships go through the loading procedure substantially reduced in June, has increased from five to sixty drops more than a dozen. 

July 2, Minister of Transport Li Shenglin to Qinhuangdao Port topics to research the problem of the backlog of coal at the port. Li Shenglin stressed that all departments and units should do everything possible to ease the coal pressure the Hong Kong situation, go all out to ensure port safety in production, to protect the safety and smoothness of coal transportation channel. However, how to solve the current problems in coal transportation, the meeting did not give a clear answer. 

At present, the southern coastal power plants to buy lots of cheap imported coal has a serious impact on the domestic market. The first five months of this year, China's coal imports of 113 million tons, an increase of 67%, the year is expected to more than three hundred million tons, far more than the total of last year imported 182 million tons of coal. 

Southern coastal areas, especially imports. Among them, Guangdong Province before 5 months of imports of coal 26,560,000 tons, an increase of 80.2 percent, accounting for 38.4% of the transferred amount of sea coal; Guangxi first five months of imports of coal, 7.53 million tons, an increase of 23.5%; Fujian Province, the first four months imported 4.82 million tons of coal, an increase of 43.1%. 

Influx of imported coal, to stabilize the domestic price of coal to curb the increase of the closing price of the northern port of coal has also led to the northern port of coal the growing backlog.