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China's energy consumption per 10,000 yuan of GDP down 1.33 pct in 2006 (2) |
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21:24, July 12, 2007 |
Of the 30 administrative regions with figures available, all but Beijing missed the 2006 target of reducing energy consumption for every 10,000 yuan of GDP by four percent. Beijing achieved a 5.25-percent drop.
Seventeen regions managed to cut their per unit GDP energy consumption by more than three percent.
The failure was mainly a result of slow progress in industrial restructuring, said Xie.
"China is in the middle stages of industrialization. Heavy industry and raw material sectors dominate, and they consume a lot of energy and discharge a lot of pollutants," Xie said.
Also to blame were weak supervision and law enforcement and a lack of tax and financial policies that support energy efficiency.
The Chinese government set a target of reducing energy consumption for every 10,000 yuan of GDP by 20 percent in the five-year period from 2006 to 2010.
"The mission ahead is tough but not impossible. We will definitely achieve the target if the whole country makes greater efforts," Xie said.
Total energy consumption in 2006 rose 9.61 percent year-on-year to 2.46 billion tons of coal equivalent, Xie said.
The energy consumption of secondary industry declined by 1.98 percent to 2.53 tons of coal equivalent per 10,000 yuan of industrial added value, while that of primary industry and tertiary industry rose 0.14 percent and 0.13 percent respectively.
Source: Xinhua
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