China: Strategic Plan for Industrial Efficiency

Within the 11th Five-Year Period, China’s strategic plan for energy efficient industrial processes involves equipment renovation and the design and implementation of process optimization and management measures. Targetting the metallurgical industry, petrochemical industry, and chemical industry, the Chinese state aims to improve energy efficiency and industrial competitiveness to “the highest level or close to the world’s front-runners.”

China: Market Transformation Programme - Partnership with the UK

China: Enhanced Efficiency Monitoring and Auditing: Development of Efficiency Centers

China: Energy Efficient Products for Government Procurement - Publication of Official Listing

China: Energy Conservation in Buildings

Within its 11th Five-Year Period, China plans to reduce residential and public buildings’ energy consumption by 50%, saving 50 million tons of standard coal. The federal plan for energy conservation in buildings formally mandates:
- the quick technical reform of heat-supply systems nation-wide;
- renewed efforts to promoting building energy efficiency technology and related products; and
- renovation of existing buildings in the nation’s cold northern regions, with particular focus on hotels. 

China: Conversion of Exhaust Heat and Pressure

China: End-Use Energy Efficiency Programme (EUEEP)

China: Government notice to encourage environmentally-friendly, low-emission cars

China: Taxation incentive policy for High Energy-Efficiency products

NDRC and the State Administration of Taxation (SAT) will jointly issue the taxation incentive policy for High Energy-Efficiency products.

Date Implemented: 2007

Status: Planned; Voluntary

References: http://www.efficientlighting.net/doc/20070105(5).pdf

China: The Mandatory Comparative labeling program

The label first used for household refrigerators and room air conditioners

Date Implemented: 2005

Status: In Force; Mandatory

References: http://www.efficientlighting.net/doc/20070105(5).pdf