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Article: Energy saving to be stressed
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- China Daily
- Article date:
- September 25, 2004
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Soaring oil prices have brought energy saving back to the debating
table. The government should highlight energy saving as another state
policy, commented an article in the Study Times. An excerpt follows:
Recently, concern increased as international oil prices made daily
surges around the globe. China's reaction to the climbing oil price
stresses energy saving rather than energy exploitation.
China has experienced a 5.77 per cent average annual increase of
oil consumption over the past 10 years. As a result, China has
replaced Japan as the second largest oil consuming country in the
world.
However, China's oil supply was not taking equally giant leaps
forward. The combined effect leads to ...