Experts: Firm measures vital for policy success

BEIJING - China should consider introducing some market-based mechanisms like resources taxes and carbon taxes to help the nation better achieve energy conservation and emissions control targets, said analysts.

The introduction of such measures, rather than administrative orders, would help the nation better implement its energy saving efforts and make a more reasonable blueprint for the sector, they said.

Premier Wen Jiabao on Wednesday said the nation would strive to achieve the 20 percent energy reduction targets it had envisaged in the 11th Five-Year Plan, which runs till 2010.