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6. Legal construction: China has made Energy Conservation Law, Recycling
Economy Law, etc. They clearly state the restrictive requirements of energy
saving and emission reduction, and include encouraging policies on energy
saving.
In the meantime, China has also carried out an “accountability system of
energy saving”, establishing the examination and evaluation of energy saving
responsibilities and targets, and allocating the targets and tasks to different
places and companies. Moreover, the three major systems of emission reduction
calculation, monitoring, and examination reinforce the examination and moni-
toring of progress, regularly report the performance of different places, integrate
the performance of energy saving and emission reduction into a comprehensive
evaluation system of local economic and social development, and make the
results of the examination an important reference for the performance of gov-
ernment officials and directors of companies.
7. Other fields: China has many achievements in reducing agricultural greenhouse
gases and raising forest carbon sinks. Since the 1980s, China has a yearly
reforestation area of 4 million ha. It is estimated that from 1980 to 2005
reforestation in China absorbed 3.06 billion tons of CO 2 in total and forest
management 1.62 billion tons; China also reduced 430 million tons of CO 2
emissions from deforestation, which effectively strengthened the forestation
sink ability.
Energy saving of civil construction: the State Council publicized the full text
of the draft of the Ordinance on Civil-building Energy Conservation, which
provides tax preference to projects of civil-building energy saving, actively
pushes forward the reform of heating systems, improves the pricing mechanism
of heating, encourages the development of centralized heating, and gradually
implements the system of pricing heat usage.
National low carbon campaigns: it includes nine special campaigns of family
and community, youth, enterprises, schools, military camps, science and tech-
nology, science popularization, and media.
1.3.4 Major Achievements of Energy Saving and Emission
Reduction During the 11th Five-Year Plan
Newly released statistics shows that energy saving and emission reduction have
achieved the expected results of the 11th Plan.
￿ Performance of Energy Saving: Table 1.3 displays the completion of targets,
which indicates that the national energy/GDP ratio decreased by 19.1 % and
utilization of non-fossil energy rose to 8.3 %, nearly completing the targets
(Table 1.4 ).
￿ Effects of Emission Reduction: Table 1.5 describes the fulfillment of emission
targets. During the 11th Five-Year Plan, the national chemical oxygen demand
emission was reduced by 12.5 %, and SO 2 by 14.5 %, nearly meeting the targets.