China is signing up for another push to improve the efficiency of its smokestack economy. The government has committed to reduce the country’s energy intensity – the energy consumed per unit of output – by 17.3 per cent as part of its next five-year plan. While cutting energy intensity has been criticised as a poor substitute for capping emissions, this is still a welcome ambition for the world’s largest energy consumer. Whether it will deliver is another matter.
中國正承諾再次努力，提高偏向重工業的中國經濟的能源效率。在下一個五年計劃中，中國政府承諾將中國的能源強度（單位國內生產總值的能耗）降低17.3%。盡管批評人士稱，降低能源強度不應代替確立排放上限，但對全球最大能源消費國來說，這仍是一個可喜的雄心。至于中國能否兌現承諾則是另一回事。
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