China says it is facing serious power shortages as severe winter weather continues to cause unusually high demand for electricity.
Thirteen regions have already started to ration power supplies, the official Xinhua news agency reported.
It said coal reserves were down to emergency levels and stockpiles were only high enough to generate power for the whole country for eight days.
China's economic boom has led to surging demand for electricity.
The coal industry has struggled to keep up, partly because of the government's campaign to close many small mines on safety grounds.
This is significant to China because the shortage of power due to the extreme weather that had hit China the Coal stockpiles have hit emergency levels stating that there is only enough coal to power all of China for 8 days, this also has to do with China closing many small Coal mines due to safety concerns.
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