China's Surging Power Usage Worsens Europe Supply Crunch

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China's Surging Power Usage Worsens Europe Supply Crunch​

 

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China experiences power shortage currently, mainly because China is the only country operates normall during the pandemic and many foreign orders used to go to other countries now all turn to China, cause sudden surge of demand for containers, cargo ships and electricity. It's reported that many factories extened working hours to meet surging overseas orders.

China's export increased 33.7%, trade surplus increased 28.9% by this August.

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本轮停电多集中在江苏、浙江、广东等制造业大省。
疫情持续影响下，中国作为全球少数几个在受影响下依然开工生产的经济体，吸引了大量国际订单。再加上，东南亚持续受到变种病毒影响，国际订单只好转投中国。
数据也证实制造业的火热——中国海关总署公布的数据显示，以美元计，8月份出口同比增速加快至25.6%，进口增速加快至33.1%，贸易顺差则进一步扩大至583.4亿美元，均高于市场预期。
累计来看，今年前8月，中国出口同比增长33.7%，比2019年同期增长30.3%，贸易顺差3624.9亿美元，同比增加28.9%。
这些数据背后，是企业不断延长的工时，以及大幅增加用电量。而且中国有“金九银十”一说，九月和十月经常是订单高峰期。