From Xinhuanet: “To cope with crippling energy shortage, China launched a comprehensive energy saving plan Tuesday, effective from now to 2020.
The plan is the biggest and most ambitious one of its kind in China’s history, said Zhao Jiarong, director of the department of environment resources conservation under the National Development and Reform Commission at a news conference.
By 2010, China set the goal to consume 2.25 tons of standard coal when producing 10,000 yuan (1,200 US dollars) of GDP, 0.43 tons fewer than that of 2002, said Zhao. In 2020, the figure is expected to decline to 1.54. ”
