China's power generation rose 1.3% year on year to 661 bln kilowatt-hours in October, official data showed. This was reported by The Xinhua News Agency.
The growth reversed a 0.4% year-on-year decline logged in September, data from the National Bureau of Statistics showed.
In a breakdown, wind and solar power generation registered fast growth in the period, rising 19.2% and 24.7% over one year ago, respectively.
Thermal power generation inched up 3.2% year on year, retreating 2.9 percentage points from the previous month, while that of nuclear power grew 7.4 percent year on year, compared with a 2.7-percent decline in September.
Hydropower output, however, shrank 17.7% year on year in October.
China's power generation amounted to 7 trln kilowatt-hours in the first ten months, a year-on-year increase of 2.2%, the data showed.
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