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China’s energy consumption per unit of GDP continues to decrease in Q1
BEIJING, May 3, 2019 (BSS/Xinhua) – China’s energy consumption per unit of
GDP continued to decrease in the first quarter 2019.
The overall amount decreased 2.7 percent year on year and the rate of
enterprises above designated scale went down 3.4 percent, said National
Bureau of Statistics (NBS). Industrial companies with an annual prime
operating revenue no less than 20 million yuan (about 2.97 million U.S.
dollars) are counted as enterprises above designated scale.
China’s demand and supply saw sustaining improvement in structure in Q1,
said Liu Wenhua, an energy official of NBS.
Compared to the same period last year, share of clean energy including
natural gas, wind, hydropower and nuclear energy in China’s total energy
consumption went up 1.5 percen tage points, while the proportion of coal
consumption decreased 1.8 percentage points.
According to the initial estimate of NBS, energy consumption nationwide
rose 3.5 percent year on year in the first three months.
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