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China News Agency, Beijing, June 13 title: XI Jinping led "zhongcai group" promoting China's energy revolution

China News Agency reporters Zhou Rui

, General Secretary of the central financial and economic leading group of the CPC leader XI Jinping 13th chaired a central finance and Economics leading group at its sixth meeting, research on China's energy security strategy, and promotion of energy consumption, energy supply, energy technology and energy systems of the four aspects of "revolution".

Energy Zhou Dadi, former Director of national development and Reform Commission told news agency reporters in an interview, said officials had previously used "renewing" describes the term energy strategy adjustments, this "revolutionary" term means that Chinese energy strategy would be a fundamental change. He stressed that in the current situation, to ensure China's energy security must be a series of major reforms, not just tinkering around.

Lin boqiang, Director of the Institute of Xiamen University in China's energy economy also told news agency reporters, enormous environmental price to pay for economic development that China's energy supply and consumption patterns are already unsustainable. But the energy problem is sensitive to relevant reform has been more difficult. Top this time emphasized the revolutionary, means that the reform of the energy sector is going to have some bold moves.

In the four energy "revolution" in the production and consumption of energy is the core content of the revolution. 13th XI Jinping pointed out in his speech, China is facing a huge energy demand, energy supply constraints were more serious damage to the ecological environment, energy production and consumption, energy level of overall poor challenge. China must move from strategic national development and security, and find ways to comply with the energy situation.

Zhou Dadi said that judging from the meeting content, revolution in the field of energy production, China will work to change the traditional energy structure dominated by coal, to diversify supply mode. "But it's not sufficient just sit back and relax," Zhou Dadi said, to ensure energy security must also have major changes in consumption. The Conference has raised total energy control, this means that the energy priority will become China's long-term strategy.

"We do not know how to change it, but to know how to change it, but it's hard to push", said Lin boqiang, this time meeting the energy revolution can be successfully deployed to advance, the key lies in whether we resolve system and prices, two core issues.

Zhou Dadi said, on "restoring energy commodity" deployment is a very important step in the reform of China's energy. He said, too much emphasis in the past on energy properties of public goods, resulting in their prices in accordance with market fluctuations. Some companies have long used cheap energy, resulting in structural adjustment difficulties.

Apart from the change in the direction and principles around its meeting today "energy security" on China's energy priorities in the field of working arrangements.

13th meeting of the Conference pointed out that, in adopting the highest international safety standards, under the premise of ensuring safety, promptly begin construction of the new nuclear power projects in coastal areas. Pragmatically, "along the way" energy cooperation, increase in Central Asia, the Middle East, the Americas, Africa, and oil and gas cooperation.

Zhou Dadi said that the Conference presentation to nuclear power, meant that China's future will develop nuclear power as coastal and inland. He said that nuclear power development was along the coast cannot be locked is not scientific, but now that the concerns of all parties, then from the coastal is a more conservative approach.

"Along the way," writes energy strategy was also considered a very important strategic choices. Zhou Dadi said that China's oil and gas imports come mainly from the Middle East and Africa in the past. And Russia signed an agreement means that China's imports of oil and gas started walking on two legs, but this time write the Americas plan, means that China will continue to promote international cooperation on oil and gas imports and diversification. (End)

(Original title: XI Jinping led "zhongcai group" to promote Chinese energy revolution)

(Edit: SN091)
21:50 June 13, 2014 China News Network