According to a statement issued on November 22nd by China National Development and Reform Commission, in January to October this year four provinces, namely Guangxi, Qinghai, Ningxia and Xinjiang have made very poor progress in their efforts to meet energy saving targets. The provinces in question are all major producers of steel products and ferroalloy products.

In addition, poor progress has been recorded by Inner Mongolia, Liaoning, Hainan, Shanxi and Gansu provinces as regards meeting energy-saving targets, though not as bad as for the previously-mentioned provinces.

Mr Xie Zhenhua deputy director of the NDRC said that last year Chinese GDP was 8.5% of the world total but its consumption of crude steel was 43% of the world total while its coal and cement consumption accounted for 45% and 52% respectively of the world totals.

He said that China energy consumption in steel, ferroalloy, electricity, chemicals and other industries were 47% higher than in advanced countries whereas energy efficiency was 10% lower than average world levels.

(Sourced from Steelorbis.com)
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