Building resource-efficient society: minister (Xinhua) Updated: 2005-06-26 11:15
China has taken building resource-efficient society as a basic principle for
economic and social development of the country, said Ma Kai, minister in charge
of State Development and Reform Commission (SDRC) on Saturday.
At the China Development Forum on Building Resource-Efficient Society being
held from June 25 to 26, Ma Kai said China endeavors to speed up its move in
building a resource efficient society by making policies and regulations.
China will take efficiency of resources as the primary principle in all
sectors of the national economy, said Ma.
He siad the aim of building resource-efficient society will be written in the
11th Five-Year Plan and be taken as an important instructive principle in
designing various plans and reform projects of governments at all levels.
Ma emphasized the importance of legislation and supervision in building an
energy-efficient society and the indispensability of encouraging system with
pricing and taxation as the major tools.
To establish an energy-efficient society, China should also encourage
technological innovation in resource efficiency and recycling use, to make the
market play an effective role by adopting new systems such as demand-side
control in electricity use and to establish a energy-conserving atmosphere in
the whole society by education, said Ma.
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