China has reported progress on its energy efficiency and clean energy levels in 2016, according to the National Bureau of Statistics.
The amount of energy used per unit of GDP dropped 5 percent last year , a good indication to the country’s target to bring down the figure to at least 15 percent by the end of the decade, state-backed Xinhua News agency reported.
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Clean energy such as hydropower, natural gas, and wind power account for 19.5 percent of the country’s total energy consumption in 2016, up from 17.9 percent recorded in 2015.
China is still relying more than 60 percent of its power from coal; however, it aims to cut down its dependency to as low as 55 percent by 2020.
