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China to Face Challenges in Energy in Next 20 Years

 

China's rapid economic growth will lead to a 12 percent annual increase in petroleum demand and China will face energy challenges over the next 20 years as personage concerned predicted.

 

A research report made by the Development Research Center of the State Council (DRC) showed that China is going to face a series of challenges in the coming 20 years, according to report by Xinhua News Agency.

 

 

The report indicated that China's economy would be quadrupled by the year 2020 with a per capita gross domestic product (GDP) of over 10,000 US dollars. It is a critical period for China to realize industrialization and also a period in which it will see great changes in the economic structure, level of urbanization and residents' consumption structure. As represented in the field of energy, the situation China is going to face will be far more complicated than what developed countries ever faced in the same historical period.

 

In terms of the energy use efficiency, the energy consumption per unit product in China is comparatively high. At present, the efficiency of energy use in China makes up only 33.4 per cent, 10 per cent lower than the world average. In 2001, the expenditure on energy consumption of China's terminal energy consumers was 1.25 trillion yuan, accounting for 13 percent of the total GDP as against 7 percent in the United States. The level of energy consumed per unit product in China is relatively high. At present, the energy consumption per unit product in the eight industries with high energy consumption is an average of 47 percent higher than the world advanced level while the total energy consumption of the eight industries take up 73 percent of the total of the industrial sectors.

 

In the future 20 years, the industrial sectors will remain China's largest energy consumers, which should become one with the most outstanding achievement in energy conservation.

 

Therefore, the industrial department should combine technological advance with adjusting industrial structure and product mix in saving energy and should promote energy saving by means of revising energy saving design criteria, carrying out audit and report of the enterprises' energy, pushing forward technological progress, establishing energy management information system and popularizing achievement and efficiency contract.

 

 

As for the construction sector, the first is to break through the heat supply system and open the heat supply market. The construction department should enact and enforce energy saving rules in construction and enforce rigorously energy saving design standards; formulate the economic inspiration mechanism to encourage the production and use of energy-saving construction materials and equipment.

 

(Source People's Daily)