China needs to focus on ten tasks for in its energy-saving campaign

At the National Energy-saving Work Conference held on July 26th, Ma Kai, chairman of of the National Development and Reform Commission, said the "Decision on enhancing the energy saving" to be soon issued by the State Council of China" represents a programmatic guideline for the energy-saving work during the 11th Five-year Plan (2006-2010). The Chinese government attaches great importance to 10 major tasks: namely, first, the implementation of energy saving responsibility system and energy efficiency evaluation system; second, vigorous promotion of structural adjustments; third, enhancement of energy-saving efforts in key areas and all-round implementation of 10 major energy-saving projects; fourth, more efficient management of energy saving in large energy-consuming enterprises; fifth, further improvement of energy-efficiency guaranteeing mechanism; sixth, acceleration of the development of the legal system for energy conservation; seventh, enhancement of energy-saving managerial personnel training and improvement of the related basic work; eighth, giving scope to the exemplary role of governmental organizations in energy-saving; ninth, further improvement of publicity, education and training activities; and tenth, improvement of organization and lead of the energy saving work.

Energy saving constitutes an urgent task in China's current economic construction, Ma said. For a very long period of time, he added, the overall energy efficiency is low in China and its energy consumption for per GDP is much higher than the world's average level. High energy-consumption industries have grown fast particularly in recent years but the transformation of economic growth mode is progressing slowly. Energy consumption has kept increasing. Despite numerous substantial measures the Chinese government has taken this year, energy consumption is still soaring and China still has a long way to go to achieve high energy efficiency.

By People's Daily Online