The China Coal Market Forum and Trade Fair 2014 opens, on Dec 12, with the China Coal Market Forum, Coal Industry Development Strategy Roundtable, Coal Marketing Roundtable, the Coal Trade Market Development Roundtable, and regular coal trade activities with other provinces and China's five major coal trade centers.

Topics for discussion are development and outlook for coal and related industries under new conditions, new systems for coal trading and building a multi-level coal marketing system, trend analyses and predictions for global and domestic coal markets, and the influence of the coal futures markets on spot markets.

There is also 2014 Coal Trade Fair in the China (Taiyuan) Coal Trade Center, on Dec 13. which offers various activities such as a trade promotion meeting, trade specials for Shanxi enterprises, road coal, joint management of coal and electric power.

Edited by Roger Bradshaw