我国是世界上最早用煤的国家,大约在四千年前(三代的时候),我国就发现了煤;一世纪的时候(东汉的时候),就学会了用煤作燃料;十世纪左右,用煤的就相当的多了。欧洲用煤比我国晚,十三世纪以后才逐渐普遍开采和使用。美国更晚,到十七世纪的时候,才开始有人用煤。到一八○三年,美国还闹过一个笑话:有人运了三百吨无烟煤到美国非列德尔非亚(PhiladelPha)城,那个城里没有一个人认识煤,他们把煤当作黑石头铺了马路。我国是世界上煤藏较丰富的国家之一。我国的煤矿,分布的地区很广大。除去西藏的情形不大清楚,其他各 China was the first country in the world to use coal. About four thousand years ago (three generations ago), China discovered coal. In the first century (at the time of the Eastern Han Dynasty), we learned to use coal as fuel; around the tenth century, The use of coal is much more. Europe uses coal later than China, and it gradually began to be mined and used after the thirteenth century. The United States was even late, and by the seventeenth century, people began to use coal. By 1883, there was a joke in the United States: Some 300 tons of anthracite were transported to the city of Philadelphia, Philadelphia. No one in the city knew coal. They used coal as a black stone shop. The road. China is one of the countries with rich coal reserves in the world. China’s coal mines are distributed in a large area. The situation of removing Tibet is not clear.