According to Mining.com articles, official data show that in 2016 China's coal consumption fell for three consecutive years. As the world's number one coal consuming and producing countries, the main reason for the decline in coal consumption in China is that China has tightened its environmental protection policies in order to improve environmental pollution.
Last year, coal accounted for 62% of the country's total energy consumption, compared with up to $64% in 2015. China's coal consumption will continue to decline over the next few years, and the proportion will fall to 55% in 2020, according to official figures.
Last month, Chinese officials said that by 2020 China would cut coal production by 8 tons a year. Chinese officials also said that by the end of 2020, China will realize the modernization of thermal power generation, reducing emissions of pollutants by 60%.
To the end of 2020, the photovoltaic power plant Chinese will increase more than 2000 kilowatts of wind power plants and more than 1500 kilowatts, which will change the structure of energy consumption Chinese. Increase the proportion of new energy utilization.
Compared with 2015, the proportion of China's new energy consumption actually rose 1.7% last year, accounting for about 19.7% of China's total energy consumption.
China's carbon dioxide emissions are likely to fall by 1% by 2017, according to data released today. Greenpeace (Greenpeace) said in a statement, it will be China's fourth consecutive years of carbon dioxide emissions growth or negative growth.
The agency also stressed that Chinese is becoming a global climate policy leader, the release of a clear signal to President Trump Trump to support the development of the oil energy plan will make the U.S. economy strong in the opposite direction.
According to Greenpeace, China will exceed its target of environmental protection by 2020. If China can quickly switch to the use of new energy sources, from over reliance on excessive pollution of the environment in the industrial transformation, China's carbon dioxide emissions will peak in advance.