China aims to reduce energy consumption per unit of GDP by 16 percent in the five years to 2015.
China on Saturday announced goals of building 235 million kilowatts of power generation capacity from clean energy forms in the next five years, in an effort to trim the country's heavy reliance on fossil fuels.
China will cap its total energy consumption at 4 billion tons of coal equivalent by 2015, said Zhang Guobao, former head of the country's National Energy Administration, on Friday.
China aims to increase the proportion of non-fossil fuels in overall primary energy use to 11.4 percent by 2015, Zhang Guobao, former head of the country's National Energy Administration, said Friday.
Shenhua Group, China's largest coal producer, said Thursday that it would invest 515.2 billion yuan ($78.4 billion) on business expansion in the next five years leading up to 2015.
Tianjin Port (Group) Co is negotiating with China National Offshore Oil Corp to establish a liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal in the port to quench the gas shortage in northern China, a top port official said on Thursday.
Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region plans to spend 20 billion yuan ($3.04 billion) this year to boost its wind-power industry, including the establishment of the region's largest production base for wind-power turbines in Hami.
Macao's consumption of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) increased by 29.1 percent quarter-on-quarter to 10,853 tons in the fourth quarter of last year, according to the figures released on Tuesday by Macao's Statistics and Census Service (DSEC).
Macao's electricity consumption reached 3.655 billion kWh in 2010, an increase of 5.5 percent over the previous year, according to figures released on Tuesday by the city's Statistics and Census Service (DSEC).
Chinese Vice Premier Wang Qishan and his Turkmenian counterpart Baymyrat Hojamuhammedov on Tuesday pledged to further all-round cooperation, especially in energy sector.
Baoshan Iron & Steel Co Ltd (Baosteel), China's largest listed steelmaker, signed a long-term coal-import agreement with the Australian mining company Rio Tinto Group, China Business News reported Tuesday.
The amount of energy consumed for every unit of economic output fell 4 percent last year from its 2009 level, according to calculations by the National Bureau of Statistics released on Monday.