China to be responsible for energy saving and emission reduction by the end of this year

Xinhua Beijing, May 27 (Xinhua Anber, Sun Xiaosheng, deputy director of the National Development and Reform Commission said 27th, this year is to achieve "Eleven-Five" energy-saving emission reduction goals of the year, China will be the provincial government and key enterprises to carry out energy-saving target assessment assessment, and to the social Bulletin assessment results, the implementation of rewards and punishments accountability.　　The responsibility Unit will be accountable by the end of this year. "China will further deepen energy price reform this year," Xie said at a high-level forum on China Energy Strategy, the 13th session of China's Beijing International Science and Technology Industry Exposition, which opened on 27th. Adjust the price of natural gas, promote the price of residential electricity ladder.　　The imposition of punitive electricity prices on energy consumption exceeding the national and local prescribed unit energy consumption limits. According to the "Eleven-Five-year Plan", China's unit gross domestic product (GDP) energy consumption is about 20% lower in five years. "Eleven-Five" in the first four years, the national GDP energy consumption fell by 14.38%. Xie said that in the first quarter of this year, based on the low base of last year, power, steel, non-ferrous metals, building materials, petrochemical, chemical energy consumption of six energy-intensive industries rebounded sharply.　　Preliminary calculations, the national energy consumption rose 3.2% year-on-year, 12 areas of unit output energy consumption from the decline, greatly aggravated the second three quarters of the energy-saving work pressure. This year, he said, China will rein in high energy consumption and polluting industries and speed up the elimination of backward production capacity.　　This year in principle no longer approve, approve and record two high industry and overcapacity industry expansion of capacity projects, not approved projects are not allowed to start, the illegal construction of the project ordered to stop building, the project ordered to stop the production of illegal. China unveiled its targets for controlling greenhouse gas emissions ahead of the U.N. Climate change conference in Copenhagen last year, with carbon dioxide emissions falling 40% to 45% per cent of GDP by 2020 compared with 2005. Xie said China will decompose this goal into "Twelve-Five" and longer-term national economic and social development plans. Despite the enormous pressure and special difficulties, China will do its best to achieve the goals that have been set.