China’s energy consumption grows faster than world’s

China’s primary energy consumption rose sharply by 8.4 per cent in 2006, six per cent more than the growth rate of global consumption as the economy boomed, a report released by BP said here.

The world consumption rose 2.4 per cent last year, slowing from a rise of 3.2 per cent in 2005, according to the ‘BP Statistical Review of World Energy’.

China consumed 1.7 billion tonnes of oil equivalent in 2006, accounting for 15.6 per cent of the world’s primary energy consumption, the report showed.

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