'Iron hand' to help realize green goals

BEIJING - Premier Wen Jiabao on Wednesday vowed to realize the country's green goal to cut energy intensity by 20 percent between 2006 and 2010, amid the strong economic recovery.

In a nationwide video and teleconference, Wen told governments at all levels to work with an "iron hand" to eliminate inefficient enterprises.

To that effect, he laid out new targets to shut down the outdated 10 GW capacity of small thermal power plants, 25 million tons of iron smelting, 6 million tons of steel production, 50 million tons of cement, 330,000 tons of aluminum, 6 million containers of glass sheets and 530,000 tons of paper production within this year.