China makes 1st 2,210-kw coal mining machine

The first China-made 2,210 kilowatt coal

mining machine passed check and appraisal on Saturday in the northwestern

Shaanxi Province, reducing the reliance on exports. (Chinese media

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XI'AN, Dec. 13 (Chinese media) -- The first China-made 2,210

kilowatt coal mining machine passed check and appraisal on Saturday in the

northwestern Shaanxi Province, reducing the reliance on exports.

Trial operation showed the remote control machine,

produced by Xi'an Coal Mining Machine Co. Ltd, can mine eight million tons of

coal annually, according to the Shaanxi Provincial Science and Technology

Department.

The price for each was 16 million yuan (2.3 million

U.S. dollars), more than 40 percent lower than exported ones.

China's coal production doubled in the recent decade

and reached 2.5 billion tons last year. But it can only produce coal mining

machine with power capacity below 1,800 kw. Machines above 2,000-kw were

exported from the U.S. and Germany.