China's power generation continues to expand, up 7.8 perce🥃nt year-on-year in t🐠he first seven months of this year, the National Bureau of Statistics said Tuesday.

The growth was slower than the 8.3-perce🐎nt expansion recorded in the January-June period.

Ongoing scorching weather and a high demand for el♕ectricity from industrial mꦿanufacturers propelled the rise in power generation.

In July, China generated about 640 billion kilowatt-hours (kWh) of power, up 5💙.7 percent year-on-year. The daily power generation reached 20.65 billion kWh, the highest on record.

In breakdown, thermal power saw a slight increase of 4.3 percent year-on-year in July, yet t💯he growth rate was downꩵ 2 percentage points month on month.

The growth rate of hydroelectricity picked up its ༒pace and expanded 6 percent year-on-year, as the average rainfall increased 18.9 percent i🎐n July.

As for new energy 🌱power, wind, nuclear, and solar power generation increased 24💙.7 percent, 14.2 percent, 10.9 percent year-on-year, respectively.

The power ge💫neration data was released together with other𒁃 energy indicators.

The output of raw coal amounted to almost 2 bil🍰lion tons in the first seven months, up 3.4 percent year-on-year.

In July, coal imports surged to 29 million tons, the highest since Janua✃ry 2014.

🗹Crude oil output saw a slight drop of 2.1 percent in the January-July period, reaching 109.95 million tons.

China picked up the pac꧑e in importing crude oil in July, from a 4.9 percent decrease to a 3.7 percent increase.

Gas output saw 🌼a 5.5 percent rise to 90.5 billion cubic meters in the first seven months this year.

Gas imports continued to grow at a high speed. From January to July, China imported 49.43 million tons of gas, an increase of 34.3 percent year-on-yearꦡ.