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China aims to reduce the share of coal
in its energy mix to less than 56% this year, according to a guideline
released by the National Energy Administration (NEA). The proportion was 56.8% in 2020 and 57.7% in 2019. In
2021, China plans to further replace coal in final energy consumption
with electricity equivalent to 200 billion kilowatt-hours, while
increasing the proportion of electricity in final energy consumption to
28%, said the document. Meanwhile,
China's energy production is expected to reach 4.2 billion tonnes of
standard coal equivalent this year, while the outputs of oil and natural
gas are expected to stand at around 196 million tonnes and 202.5
billion cubic meters, respectively. China
will also strive to bring the installed capacity of non-fossil energy
to 1.1 billion kilowatts and cut energy consumption per unit of gross
domestic product by around 3% in 2021. China
will further strengthen control of the total coal consumption, push
forward the efficient and clean use of coal, encourage comprehensive
energy services and enhance energy-efficiency management, said the NEA. Efforts
will be made to promote clean heating, to ensure that clean energy is
used for heating in more than 70% of the households in northern China,
while the use of clean heating in the southern part of the country will
be explored, it said. In the face of
the issue of global climate change, China has announced its goal to peak
its carbon dioxide emissions before 2030 and become carbon-neutral by
2060.
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