Beijing's energy, water consumption down, utilization up
(BOCOG)
Updated: 2006-11-09 10:53
Beijing has seen a significant fall in the consumption of energy and water per unit of output value in the first three quarters over the same period of last year, an official said.
At a press conference in Beijing on Wednesday, deputy director of Beijing Municipal Statistics Bureau Yu Xiuqin said there had been an effective control of the total volume of energy consumption, whose growth rate was lower than that of gross domestic product (GDP) while a remarkable increase was recorded in energy utilization rate in the first three quarters of the year.
Yu noted that the energy consumption structure had improved with a reduction in the consumption of energy for production purposes. The growth rate of energy consumption in the primary and secondary industries was lower than that of the tertiary industry, Yu said, adding that the water consumption was also effectively checked.
Speaking of energy and water utilization, Yu said their utilization rate was gradually rising. The energy consumption per 10,000 yuan of value added was down in all the primary, secondary and the tertiary industries in comparison with the same period last year. Beijing's water consumption per 10,000 yuan of output value in the first three quarters of 2006 stood at 43.9 cubic meters, a 17.3 percent decrease over the same period in 2005.
She said the city had seen a stable and healthy economic development while pushing forward the adjustment of economic structure and growth mode by putting emphasis on the service industry. Beijing's GDP grew 12.2 percent to 551.32 billion yuan (68.91 billion US dollars) during the same period, with the tertiary industry yielding 388.38 billion yuan (48.62 billion US dollars), or 70.4 percent of the total.
Yao Fei, official of the Beijing Municipal Commission of Development and Reform, told the press that Beijing will further strive to promote the service industry, including financing, insurance, software, digital information as well as medicines, and will set up a long-term energy-saving mechanism.
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