Capital to cut consumption of energy, bring back blue skies

Beijing will cut its yearly energy consumption to around 77 million metric tons of standard coal by 2020 to save resources and reduce carbon emissions, with an aim to bring back blue skies.

That means the city's energy consumption for every 10,000 yuan ($1,500) of gross regional domestic product will drop by 17 percent compared with levels in 2015.Carbon emissions for every 10,000 yuan of gross regional domestic product will decline by 20.5 percent compared with 2015 levels, according to a municipal governmental plan released on Aug 17 on saving energy and coping with climate change during the 13th Five-Year Plan period (2016-20).

New energy and renewable energy will account for more than 8 percent of the city's total energy consumption by 2020.