The State Council issued a notice Tuesday urging nationwide
efforts to build a resource-saving society, the latest in a string
of calls for more efficient use of energy this week.
It said efforts should focus on major energy consuming iron and
steel, nonferrous metal, coal, electricity, oil and petrochemical,
chemical and building material industries, and in enterprises
consuming more than 10,000 tons of standard coal each a year.
It also stressed conservation in transport and agricultural
machinery, newly-built housing and public buildings, and commercial
and private facilities, as well as the development and utilization
of renewable resources such as hydroelectric, wind, solar and
biomass.
The regulation of demand for electricity should be strengthened
and the building of an energy-saving technical service system
accelerated.
The notice also called for efforts to save water in daily life,
irrigation and industrial production; upgrade water-saving
technologies and utilize seawater; and strengthen control of
underground water resources.
Work should be done to promote the conservation of raw
materials, save and make intensive use of land, and enhance the
comprehensive use of resources, the document said.
Building a resource-saving society should become an important
guideline for formulating the 11th five-year plan for national
economic and social development beginning next year, and other
special plans, regional planning and city planning.
Regulations on industrial restructuring should also be worked
out, and the legal system for resources conservation and related
standards improved.
The notice urged ministries and authorities to strengthen
leadership and coordination in the national endeavor to save
resources and called on governments at all levels to play a leading
role in saving resources.
Various activities should be organized throughout the country to
create a sound atmosphere for the building of a resource-saving
society, it said.
(Xinhua News Agency July 6, 2005)