Chinese Vice-Premier Zeng
Peiyan yesterday called for extensive international
co-operation in the energy sector at a meeting with participants
attending a related forum being held in Beijing.
More than 80 energy-related experts, officials and entrepreneurs
from both home and abroad discussed China's energy issues,
including energy efficiency, energy and environment and new energy
forms during the two-day China Development Forum special session on
China's Energy Strategy and Reform.
At the meeting, Zeng said the Chinese Government attaches great
importance to environmental issues and will follow a new industrial
development path with better economic returns, low consumption of
resources and less pollution.
He said China will continue to adjust its industrial and energy
structure, raise energy efficiency, conduct extensive international
co-operation in energy, strengthen development of clean coal
technology, make use of new energy and renewable energy sources
such as wind and solar energy and popularize technologies for
energy saving and comprehensive utilization.
(Xinhua News Agency November 17, 2003)