A report released by the National Statistics Bureau on October 27 showed that China's energy self-sufficiency rate has reached 90 percent, says Shanghai Securities News today.

The Chinese government has attached great importance to securing energy supplies to support sustainable economic growth and guarantee national economic security. In the last 30 years, China has massively boosted energy production by expanding investment.

Statistics show that energy production in 2007 totaled 2.35 billion tons of standard coal, 2.8 times more than the figure in 1978, reflecting an annual growth rate of 4.7 percent. China has become the second biggest energy producer in the world after the United States. Its energy self-sufficiency rate has reached 90 percent. In 2007, raw coal production totaled 2.526 billion tons, 3.1 times more than in 1978. China is the world's biggest coal producer.

At the end of 2007, China had an installed power generation capacity of 718 million kilowatts, 11.6 times more than in 1978, representing an average annual growth of 9.1 percent. In 2007, the country's total electricity generation capacity reached 3,281.6 billion kilowatt-hours, 11.8 times more than the figure in 1978, an annual growth rate of 9.2 percent. The country has also made progress on renewable energy. Hydropower, nuclear power and wind power accounted for 8.2 percent of total energy production in 2007, compared with 3.1 percent in 1978.

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(China.org.cn by Huang Shan October 28, 2008)