Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao recently delivered a stern speech, covering the country failed to achieve the established energy saving and pollution reduction goals. He said this situation must be corrected to ensure sustained economic growth. Wen Jiabao delivered a related talk by the end of April, but made public only yesterday, the full text. The speech signals that the central government to develop around the implementation of energy and pollution standards, the central government and local provincial authorities to start a game.
The Chinese Government is discussing whether to develop more stringent export control measures, particularly in the steel-related industries. End of this month the two countries will hold high-level economic dialogue in Washington is expected that these measures may be announced before this choice.
China has begun to reduce the export tax rebate for steel products, but Premier Wen Jiabao's speech that the measures will further the implementation of tax reduction. "Complete 'Eleventh Five' plan goals and tasks, this is the key, "Wen said the government would "continue to apply to adjust export tax rebates, increasing export tariffs, and reducing exports quotas, controls exports of high energy consumption and high pollution. "
The Chinese government has plans to use three years to control the development of heavy industry, and early last year set the energy saving and pollution reduction goals, but ultimately failed in all aspects of compliance.
Wen Jiabao in a government of this talk is published in an internal meeting. According to Xinhua, Wen said, watching the first quarter, industry, particularly the high energy consumption and high pollution industry growing too fast, the country's total industrial energy consumption and sulfur dioxide emissions from nearly 70% of the electricity, steel, nonferrous metals, building materials, oil processing, chemical 6 major industries such as an increase of 20.6%, an acceleration of 6.6 percentage points.
International Energy Agency (IEA) said that although China's economy accounted for only about one fifth of the United States, China surpassed the U.S. as early as this year as the world's largest emitter of greenhouse gases.
Wen said: "to reduce pollution emissions, we should bear the responsibility. " But China has yet to implement mandatory emissions reductions.
