China Aims to Triple Fuel Ethanol Output By 2010

China plans to more than treble its fuel ethanol output by 2010 to reduce the country’s dependence on imported oil and to boost the income of hundreds of millions of farmers, a government official said on Thursday.

“We will only support converting part of our grains into ethanol as long as it does not threaten the grain supply,” Liu Qun from the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), the country’s top planning body, told a biofuel conference.
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