BEIJING/TOKYO -- The Chinese government has laid out tools to tamp down skyrocketing coal prices that have choked electric power supplies and hurt the broader economy.
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China weighs coal market intervention as power crunch heads into winter
Options include cutting profit margins to ease strain on economic growth
A coal-fired heating complex in Harbin in northern China. The country relies on coal to meet much of its heating needs in the winter. © Reuters
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