4 regions told to set goals to cut coal use

Advanced Search

The story appears on

Page A9

January 15, 2015

GET this page in PDF

Free for subscribers

View shopping cart

4 regions told to set goals to cut coal use

Source: Agencies | January 15, 2015, Thursday |

Print Edition

CHINA’S state planning agency has ordered Shanghai and the provinces of Zhejiang, Jiangsu and Guangdong to draw up plans to reduce coal consumption in a bid to improve air quality, according to a policy document released yesterday.

The National Development and Reform Commission said in a notice posted on its website that the regions had been ordered to set targets by June this year.

China has named the vast manufacturing hub of the Yangtze River Delta, which includes Zhejiang, Jiangsu and Shanghai, as one of its three main pollution control regions, along with the Pearl River Delta that covers Guangdong.

The third region of Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei has already set targets to cut coal use. Beijing will cut consumption by 12 million tons from 2013 to 2017, Tianjin by 20 million and Hebei by 40 million.

China’s coal-dominated energy mix has been identified as one of the major causes of the hazardous smog that frequently shrouds big cities such as Beijing and Shanghai, as well as a big source of climate-warming greenhouse gases.

China aims to bring the share of coal in total energy consumption down to below 62 percent by 2020.

The share fell to 64.2 percent in 2014 from 66 percent at the end of 2013, said the outgoing head of the country’s energy administration, Wu Xinxiong.

A nationwide coal consumption cap of 4.2 billion tons is set to be included in its next five-year plan covering the 2016-2020 period.

Business Energy

About Us
|
Terms of Use
|
RSS
|
Privacy Policy
|
Contact Us
|
Shanghai Call Center: 962288
|
Tip-off hotline: 52920043

沪ICP证：沪ICP备05050403号-1
|
互联网新闻信息服务许可证：31120180004
|
网络视听许可证：0909346
|
广播电视节目制作许可证：沪字第354号
|
增值电信业务经营许可证：沪B2-20120012

4 regions told to set goals to cut coal use

Email this to your friend