(Yicai Global) July 16 -- China's electricity generation grew 6.5 percent to 630.4 billion kilowatt hours in June as the nation's industry ramped up its capacity to recover from the hit by the Covid-19 pandemic, data the National Bureau of Statistics released today show.

The growth rate was 2.2 percentage point faster than May’s, the agency said.

Electricity generation was still down 1.4 percent annually at 3.36 trillion kilowatt hours in the first half.

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