(May 9 )(Bloomberg) -- China Resources Power Holdings Co., the third-largest Hong Kong-listed Chinese generator by market value, increased electricity production by 49 percent in the first four months this year.

The utility generated 20.5 million megawatt-hours in the January-to-April period compared with 13.7 million megawatt- hours a year earlier, the company said in an e-mailed statement late yesterday. Output in April rose 70 percent to 5.45 million megawatt-hours.