China
Energy consumption per 10,000 yuan of GDP down 1.33% in ´06
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Source: CCTV.com | 07-13-2007 10:19
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Xie Fuzhan, director of the National Bureau of Statistics, addresses a press conference in Beijing on Thursday, July 12, 2007. [Photo: china, com.cn]
The National Bureau of Statistics has reviewed the nation's energy consumption per unit of GDP in 2006. Officials say the country is developing in a way that is less wasteful and less damaging to the environment.
China's energy consumption per 10,000 yuan of GDP was 1.206 tons of coal equivalent in 2006 down 1.33 percent from 2005. This is the first time China has seen an annual decline in its energy consumption for every ten thousand yuan of GDP since 2003.
However, all regions except Beijing missed the target previously set for the reduction of energy consumption in 2006. The government set the target for reducing energy consumption for every ten thousand yuan of GDP at 20 percent in the five-year period from 2006 to 2010. The goal for 2006 was four percent.
Twenty-nine of the Chinese mainland's thirty one provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities saw their per unit GDP energy consumption decrease last year. Only northwestern Qinghai province reported an increase. Figures for the Tibet Autonomous Region are not yet available.
Editor:Du Xiaodan
