China's Economy Is Going Greener

The Chinese government has ordered to eliminate out-dated production facilities and set stricter rules on new project approvals in a bid to meet its energy saving and emission cut target.

China aimed to cut energy consumption per unit of gross domestic product (GDP) by 20 percent and cut emissions of major pollutants by 10 percent between 2006 and 2010.

China's economy has experienced dramatic growth over the past three decades, but this miracle came with degrading rivers, lakes and air quality.

But the government has shifted its policy for sustainable growth and the ruling Communist Party of China even made "an energy-saving, environmentally-friendly society" a mandate in its charter.

As governments around the world focus on green growth, some experts even called it as an on-going Green Revolution, following major industrial revolutions of the mankind.

China has planned to increase investment on clean energy in the coming years. In 2007 alone, it invested about $12 billion in such energy as wind and solar.

Zhang added that China's total investment in desulfurization of coal-fired power plants had reached 100 billion yuan by the end of 2008.

(Xinhua)