China will make more efforts this year to save energy and reduce
emission in every sector of the national economy, Zhu Hongren, an
official with the National Development and Reform Commission
(NDRC), said Monday.
"China's energy consumption per unit of GDP started to decline
in the third quarter last year but still fell short of the
energy-saving target set at the beginning of 2006," said Zhu,
adding "the situation remains grave."
Zhu said the growth rate of heavy industry outran that of light
industry by 4.1 percentage points for the whole of 2006, compared
with a gap of 1.8 percentage points in the first half of 2006. The
situation made it more difficult for the reduction of
emissions.
The NDRC will urge enterprises across the country to push
forward technical transformation in order to save more energy.
China will continue restructuring industries concerning coal,
cement and aluminium and speed up eliminating backward production
lines, technologies and products that involve high energy
consumption, according to the NDRC.
(Xinhua News Agency January 30, 2007)