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New ministry urged to control energy use

www.chinanews.cn 2007-03-04 14:59:20

(Source: Xinhua)

Mar.4 – Following China’s failure to achieve its annual energy
consumption control goals, the country’s lawmakers are urging the
government to set up a new ministry to ensure the efficient and
sustainable use of energy resources.
“China’s energy supervision department is seriously understaffed. Without
a professional and strong administrative team, laws and regulations
cannot be well implemented,” said Wang Weicheng, a deputy to the National
People’s Congress (NPC), China’ s top legislature, which will kick off
its annual full session on Monday.
China abolished the Ministry of Energy in 1993. Currently, energy control
falls in the power of the National Development and Reform Commission.
“Many countries, including the United States and Russia, have ministerial
level departments on energy resources. The U.S. Department of Energy even
has more than 10,000 staff members,” said Wang, a heat energy engineering
professor with Qinghua University.
The professor said his suggestion has won support from more than 20
deputies this year. “We hope that the government would further control
energy consumption and improve environmental assessment of large
projects,” he said.
Wang said his previous suggestions have received “positive” feedback from
relevant government departments and he hopes the suggestion will really
make a difference this year.
The Chinese government set an annual goal of reducing energy consumption
per unit GDP by 4 percent in 2006. But official statistics showed that
the country’s energy consumption per 10,000 yuan (1,2-92 U.S. dollars) of
GDP fell 1.23 percent to 1.21 tons of coal equivalent in 2006, failing to
meet the projected target.

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