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Power generation goes up by 7.8%

Power generation rose 7.8 percent year-on-year in the first seven months of this year, the National Bureau of Statistics said Tuesday. The growth was slower than the 8.3-percent expansion recorded in the January-June period. Ongoing scorching weather and a high demand for electricity from industrial manufacturers propelled the rise in power generation. In July, China generated about 640 billion kilowatt-hours of power, up 5.7 percent year-on-year. The daily power generation reached 20.65 billion kWh, the highest on record. Thermal power saw a slight increase of 4.3 percent year-on-year in July, while the growth rate of hydroelectricity was 6 percent year-on-year.