Caixin
Jan 10, 2010 11:02 PM

A Deep Breath For China

 

Saving energy and cutting airborne emissions are squarely at the top of China's national agenda for 2010. According to the 11th Five Year Plan, per-unit GDP energy consumption must be cut to 20 percent of 2005 levels, while COD (chemical oxygen demand) and sulfur dioxide emissions are to be slashed 10 percent each.

Premier Wen Jiabao declared at the Summer Davos World Economic Forum in September 2009 that these goals would be reached – and on schedule.

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