Analysis on influencing factors of coal price in China

The article identifies the factors that may have an impact on China's coal prices, including the supply and the demand, international coal price and the coal stocks, by processing and analyzing the CRTP China thermal coal price index data which is from January 2010 to October 2013. According to the results, the factors like international oil prices, import and export volume of coal have no significant effect on the price of coal. In the following part there is also some analyze about the impact of the related policies.