Some areas of high energy-consuming industry projects reappeared the seedling of faster growth?

Oct. 31 (Xinhua) -- Li Gao, head of the National Development and Reform Commission's Climate Department, said today that some areas of high-energy-consuming industry projects have resurfaced with the beginnings of faster growth. To further will strengthen the work of energy saving and consumption reduction, and further strengthen the target constraints, to prevent the rebound of fossil energy consumption, to prevent the past achievements of carbon emissions intensity decline by erosion.

One is the further optimization of industrial structure. By continuously promoting the transformation and upgrading of the industrial structure, the service sector continues to "lead" economic growth, industry is accelerating towards the middle and high end, and the effectiveness of industrial production capacity removal is evident. "Since the 13th Five-Year Plan, the proportion of the added value of the tertiary industry to the GDP has increased by 2.3 percentage points, and the proportion of the added value of the tertiary industry to the GDP in the first three quarters of this year has increased by 1.6 percentage points compared with the same period last year. The growth rate of added value of high-tech industries and strategic emerging industries was 4.6 and 4.8 percentage points faster than that of above-scale industries respectively.

The second is to achieve new results in energy saving and consumption reduction, through strengthening the responsibility of energy saving targets, strengthening energy saving in key areas, strengthening energy saving supervision and inspection measures, China has achieved relatively significant results in energy saving and consumption reduction. 2016 national energy consumption per unit of GDP fell by 5%, and in the first three quarters of this year, national energy consumption per unit of GDP fell by another 3.8% year-on-year.

Third, China has made new progress in energy structure adjustment. In recent years, China has effectively controlled coal production and consumption, promoted the orderly development of coal power generation, and taken various measures to actively develop non-fossil energy power generation.

At the same time, it is also noted that there are some problems and hidden dangers at present, and some areas of high energy-consuming industry projects have re-emerged the seeds of faster growth. We need to further strengthen the work of energy saving and consumption reduction, and further strengthen the target constraints to prevent the rebound of fossil energy consumption, and to prevent the erosion of the results of the decline in carbon emission intensity that we have achieved in the past.