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Energy consumption per unit of GDP dropsBy Sun Xiaohua (China Daily)Updated: 2007-03-01 10:11 China's energy consumption per unit of gross domestic product (GDP) dropped 1.23 percent year-on-year in 2006, the first annual decline since 2003, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said yesterday. The figure, however, fell short of the target.
According to the NBS, the country consumed 2.46 billion tons of coal equivalent in 2006, up 9.3 percent from a year earlier, while the economy grew 10.7 percent. Energy consumption soared 15.3 percent in 2003 and 16.1 percent in 2004, both more than 5 percentage points higher than the GDP growth rates for those years. Energy consumption growth dropped to 10.6 percent in 2005, still a little higher than the economic growth rate. Zhou Dadi, with the Energy Research Institute of the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), told Xinhua
News Agency that the decline indicates that the government's efforts at cooling
down the economy and reducing energy use have begun to take effect.
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