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method, enabling residents to cut more than 10 % of their expenses on heating and
providing a base for further innovation. Additionally, the Ministry of Finance has
introduced a policy of substituting subsidies with rewards, by putting aside 1.26
billion RMB to subsidize innovative projects.
Not only northern areas but also cities and provinces such as Shanghai, Jiangsu,
Hunan and Shenzhen also implemented energy-saving renovation efforts, providing
rich experience for the further practice and research of energy conservation in
transitional and southern areas of China.
3.2.1.3 Energy-Saving Operations and Transformation of Service
Systems in Large Public Buildings Goes Further and Progress
Has Been Made in Renewable Energy Buildings and Walling
Material Renovation Efforts
By the end of 2010, according to a national survey, there were 33,000 State
department office buildings and large public buildings, nearly 1/4 of them being
major energy consumers, while 4,850 had finished their energy audits. The survey
also published energy consumption information for about 6,000 of those buildings
and set up real-time dynamic monitoring of energy consumption for 1,500 of them.
Construction of the first 12 test units for energy-saving campuses is progressing
and producing significant results, as the average energy consumption per person
was reduced by more than 60 %, compared with that of 72 key universities under
the direct administration of the Ministry of Education, in 2005. A fund of 179
million RMB was set up by the central government to subsidize those areas that
were excluded from the 24 model provinces and cities under the initial energy-
saving supervision system. Jiangsu, Inner Mongolia and Chongqing city were
selected for construction of the second group of pilot energy-saving units.
Consequently, the energy use per square meter area and per capita energy consump-
tion for national public buildings dropped while the energy efficiency improved year
by year during the 11th FYP period. Compared to 2005, the energy use per square
meter area of public building was 23.86 kgce in 2010, with a decline of 14.85 %. The
per capita energy consumption was 447.4 kgce in 2010, with a decline of 20.27 %,
among which, the per capita accumulated electricity use for the central government
decreased 24.48 % during the 11th Five-Year Plan period.
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As for the development of
renewable energy, by the end of 2010, the central government financed 210 Solar-PV
Building-Application Demonstration Projects. It also implemented the Plan for Urban
Demonstration Projects Using Renewable EnergyinBuildingsandthePlanforRural
Demonstration Projects Using Renewable Energy in Building, during which the first
group of 21 model cities and 38 model rural areas at county level were selected. There
were 47 pilot cities and 98 demonstration counties of renewable energy utilization
buildings by 2010. Due to central government efforts, during the period of 11th FYP,
the application area of solar PV technology reached about 1.48 billion m
2
, nearly 3
times than that for 2005, while the application area of Superficial Geothermal Energy
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Source: Bulletin of Energy-saving Meetings of central governmental offices.
