Promote dialogue on energy co-operation

The Chinese Government is implementing a series of policies and measures in a bid to solve the energy security issue, an issue which has a strategic significance. Saving energy and slashing energy consumption is regarded as a fundamental national policy. The 11th Five Year Plan (2006-10) set out the goal of cutting the consumption of energy per unit of GDP by a hefty 20 per cent over this period. The government work report delivered to the National People’s Congress this year has explicitly stipulated that the consumption of energy per unit of GDP will ease by about 4 per cent while the GDP will grow at roughly 8 per cent.

The country has put in place the strategy of developing multiple sources of energy, while also developing alternative sources of energy. The Mid- and Long-Term Development Plan for China’s Energy states clearly that the central task of ensuring energy supply in China at present and in the coming period is to optimize its energy structure by way of gearing up the work of tapping hydro-electric power, stepping up nuclear-electric power construction and encouraging the development of wind power, biological energy sources and other renewable sources of energy. It is designed to increase the proportion of renewable sources of energy in the entire energy structure to around 15 per cent by 2020 from the current 7 per cent.

China Daily