This year China or replace the United States become the global energy consumption first

Liyi with China's increasing dependence on foreign oil, the cost to China is staggering. The "December 2010 National Import key Commodity Value table", issued by the General Administration of customs yesterday, shows that China imports 20.86 million tons of crude oil in the current period and imports 239 million tonnes a year, a 17.5% increase over the same period in 2009. In the current period, imports cost $12.711 billion trillion, totaling $135.151 billion a year, a significant increase of 51.4% over the same period in 2009.　　Experts predict that in 2010 China may overtake the US as the world's biggest energy consumer. The weakness of oil dependence on the national Mineral Resources Planning, published in early 2009, predicts that if the geological Survey is not strengthened and the current mode of economic development is not changed, the foreign dependence of China's oil will rise to 60% in 2020 years. The forecast for China's Energy Development Report (2009) points out that China's dependence on oil will rise to 64.5% in 10 years.　　At the same time, the National Development and Reform Commission Energy Research Institute of the forecast data show that 2020 China's oil demand will be 450 million tons ~6.1 billion tons, when the domestic oil production is estimated to 180 million tons, imports will be 270 million tons ~4.3 billion tons, import dependence will be in 60%~70% between. Dong Xiucheng, vice president of the University of Chinese Petroleum and Business Administration, predicts that China may overtake the US as the world's biggest energy-consuming country in just over 2010 years.　　Even if China reaches the goal of "carbon reduction 40%~45%" promised to the UN climate conference, it will be hard to reduce its oil consumption and its consequent dependence on its external dependency, so it would be difficult for China to control its external dependence on oil by 60% in 2020 years. China has been transformed from a net oil exporter to a net oil importer since 1993. Although large oil reserves have been explored in the western region and the Bohai Sea and South China Sea in recent years, the output of the new oilfields cannot make up for the decline of the latter, as the output of the main oilfields in the east is declining, so the annual oil production in China will be basically maintained at 180 million ~1.9 billion tons. "In contrast to this, China's current annual oil consumption is already over 400 million tonnes and is still growing rapidly," Dong Xiucheng told the newspaper.　　"Natural gas era" rise in the face of domestic oil reserves decreased year by year, oil dependence on the trend of increasing, some people in the industry to the Western countries in the energy structure of the transition path, put forward to natural gas-oriented clean energy or will help China to meet the end of the oil era.　　Chen Weidong, chief researcher at CNOOC's Energy Research Institute, said the US relied on the "shale gas revolution" to usher in the natural gas era, and that China could also rely on shale gas and other natural gas development to replace its dependence on oil. Shale gas production in the United States now reaches 17% of natural gas production, compared with 1% in 2006. America's shale gas supply is expected to exceed 50% of its total natural gas by 2030, the most promising natural gas in decades to come.Sources of supply. Tang Weixian, Director of Operations and Enterprise Affairs of China Gas Group, introduced the US, the U.S. based on natural gas distributed energy has been more developed, industrial parks, residential areas have the use of gas power generation of small power plants, but also power generation of water vapor and other energy recycling.　　At present, China Tengzhong Gas group and other enterprises have begun to promote these technologies in some parts of the country. Chen Weidong that the United States is the world's largest energy consumer, its every move is linked to the world energy market ups and downs. In pushing the Low-carbon economy forward today, natural gas is the lowest carbon emissions in fossil fuels, and with the increasing dependence on oil, China's natural gas age may come ahead.