China, which now relies on coal for around 70 percent of its energy use, will see rapid growth in the consumption of unconventional gas including coalbed methane, shale gas and flammable gas in the next decade, a senior expert said on Monday.
With a growing multitude of smokestacks dismantled and polluting factories closed, China is scaling up its often painful efforts to curb greenhouse gas emissions and boost energy efficiency.
China has laid a firm foundation for green development and will achieve its ambitious target on increasing the use of renewable resources, a senior advisor with PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) said.
China hit back on Sunday at US plans to investigate its clean energy policies, calling the move "groundless and irresponsible".
China shut down 1,355 small coal mines with a total production capacity of 125.2 million tons by the end of September as part of efforts to restructure its mining industry, the National Energy Administration (NEA) said Thursday.
Shandong province is the latest of 10 Chinese provinces to provide a subsidy on rural electric bicycle purchases.
China's reconstruction mode matching one province to one county in Sichuan demonstrated great success, Henrik Slotte, an official with the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), told chinadaily.com.cn in an exclusive interview on Oct 12 in Beijing.
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