BEIJING--June 16, 2017--Researched by Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas)--In May 2017, China's overall social power consumption reached 496.8 billion kilowatt-hours (kWh), an increase of 5.1% year over year, which was 0.9 percentage point lower than the previous month. From January to May 2017, China's accumulative social power consumption reached 2,426.3 billion kWh, an increase of 6.4% year over year; which was 3 percentage points higher than the same period of previous year, according to China's National Energy Administration.