China faces pressure achieving energy-saving goal: expert

China is under great pressure and facing many challenges if it hopes to achieve its goal of cutting by 20 percent the amount of energy it uses to produce a unit of GDP, according to a official of the State Council research center.

Energy consumption by industries and by people has soared since the beginning of the decade and the amount of energy used to create a unit of GDP remains 40 percent higher than in advanced countries, Feng Fei, director of the Industry Department of the Development Research Center of the State Council.
People’s Daily