China's raw coal output increased 4 percent year on year to 360 million tonnes last month, data from the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) showed Monday.

The October output represented 5.5-percent growth from the same period in 2019, the NBS said.

The country imported 26.94 million tonnes of coal in October, up 96.2 percent year on year.

In the January-October period, China produced 3.3 billion tonnes of raw coal, up 4 percent year on year, or up 4.1 percent from the same period in 2019.

In the past 10 months, China imported 257.34 million tonnes of coal, up 1.9 percent year on year.