BEIJING — China's crude oil output reached 33.47 million metric tons in the first two months of 2022, up 4.6 percent from the same period last year, official data showed.

The growth pace was 2.9 percentage points higher than the level registered in December 2021, according to data from the National Bureau of Statistics.

Daily output of crude oil averaged 567,000 tons, the bureau said.

In the first two months, China's import of crude oil went down 4.9 percent from the year-earlier level to 85.14 million tons, the data showed.

Last year, China's crude oil output reached nearly 199 million tons, up 2.4 percent from 2020.