Ministry sets clean energy targets

Source: Xinhua  |   2008-12-15  |     NEWSPAPER EDITION

THERE will be 30,000 clean-energy vehicles in China by 2012, according to the Ministry of Science and Technology.

The ministry is promoting a project to put 5,000 hybrid buses, 20,000 hybrid taxis and 5,000 electric vehicles on the streets in 10 cities by 2012, said Zhan Zhihong, deputy director-general of the ministry's Department of High and New Technology Development and Industrialization.

Zhang said the project would save 780 million liters of gasoline and diesel oil and avoid the generation of 2.3 million tons of carbon dioxide.

He said the ministry had sent officials to Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Chongqing and Anhui Province to choose the cities for the vehicles.

The ministry did not say which companies would make the vehicles but suggested that they would use domestic technology. China has tested clean-energy vehicles in Shanghai, Chongqing, Shenzhen, Wuhan and Dalian.