China’s Energy Conditions and Policies

  • - Information Office of the State Council

Abstract

Energy is an essential material basis for human survival and development. Over the entire history of mankind, each and every significant step in the progress of human civilization has been accompanied by energy innovations and substitutions. The development and utilization of energy has enormously boosted the development of the world economy and human society.Over more than 100 years in the past, developed countries have completed their industrialization, consuming an enormous quantity of natural resources, especially energy resources, in the process. Today, some developing countries are ushering in their own era of industrialization, and an increase of energy consumption is inevitable for their economic and social development.

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This article was first published by the Information Office of the State Council of the PRC in December 2007.  Permission has been granted by the Embassy of the PRC to reprint this article here.
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