Mongolia buys Chinese heating briquettes to fight this winter's smog

Mongolia, China's largest supplier of imported coking coal, has begun importing 280,000 tonnes of processed heating fuel from China for the upcoming winter, a reversal of the cross-border coal trade that normally runs the other way, Chinese and Mongolian media reported.

The first train carrying this winter's needs left Erenhot in China's Inner Mongolia for Bayan station in Mongolia's capital city Ulaanbaatar on October 10, carrying around 4,460 tonnes of the fuel in 100 wagons. Ulaanbaatar's 'ger' districts – areas of traditional housing outside the capital often referred to incorrectly as