China Coal Information Institute

China Coal Information Institute grew out the former China Coal Scientific and Technical Information Institute that was set up in 1959. It is directly affiliated to the State Administration of Coal Industry (formerly the Ministry of Coal Industry),with more than 800 employees providing all round information services such as document retrieval, information research, book and journal publishing, audio-video products publishing, patent service and coal related sci-tech knowledge popularization.

The main functions of China Coal Information Institute are to provide information to the decision-making process by the leadership of the country\'s coal sector and the relevant state authorities as well as provide coal enterprises and the whole society with technical/economic information, scientific and technical documents and literatures, market investigation, information research, and consultancy,technology tranafer,books, publications and audio-video products, domestic and international trade agency service and multi-language translation and interpretation services.