The International Energy Agency said that with the economic cold, and the adjustment of industrial structure of coal consumption, coal demand in China or first touch the top, and India is the world coal use the main promoter of paved road in 2020.

China remains the world's largest consumer of coal, but with a less energy intensive industry marching to the, to the serious pollution of the fuel consumption gradually reduced. Beijing to the big city haze governance asphyxia also makes coal demand hit.

The "golden age of coal in the China seems to have ended," IEA Friday in 2020 before the mid market forecast report. The report said, in view of the development of the property market and infrastructure stagnation, the current coal demand is likely to peak". With the reduced power demand of heavy industry, lower than expected demand for electricity coal consumption and further lead to the decline.

IEA predicts that Chinese coal demand in 2020 from 28.43 in 2014 to 26.4 tons of coal equivalent tons. When the global demand from 55.4 billion tons of coal equivalent to 55.09 tons in 2014.