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Legislature passes renewable energy bill
www.chinanews.cn 2005-03-01 10:32:52
(Source: China Daily)
BEIJING, Mar.1 - Non-fossil energy sources, including wind, solar power
and thermal power, will make up a bigger share of China's energy
resources under a new bill passed yesterday encouraging use of renewable
energy.
Members of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (NPC)
approved the Law on Renewable Sources, which upholds renewable energy as
a priority in China's energy strategy.
"The development and use of renewable energy has special importance
because China is a developing country with severe energy shortages,"
Standing Committee member Li Congjun said at a discussion on Saturday.
The new law, effective next year, provides a host of practices to ensure
that renewable energy can be produced, marketed and used.
It orders power grid operators to purchase "in full amounts" resources
from registered renewable energy producers within their domains. It also
encourages oil distribution companies to sell biological liquid fuel on
the sidelines.
According to the law, power grid operators should buy
renewable-source-generated power at directed prices calculated by the
government. The extra costs incurred by this will be shared throughout
the overall power network.
The law also offers financial incentives, such as a national fund to
foster renewable energy development, and discounted lending and tax
preferences for renewable energy projects.
"It requires huge inputs of money and talent to develop renewable energy,
especially at the budding stage, so the incentives from public coffers
are very necessary," said Chang Jingwen, a law researcher with the
Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in Beijing.
It usually takes three reviews before an act goes to a vote. But this one
was passed after the second round, with senior legislators acknowledging
the vital need to get the nation on a sustainable energy fast track amid
worries about the country's worsening pollution problems, chronic energy
shortages and increasing reliance on imported energy sources.
Official data show China's per capita possession of oil reserves is about
10 per cent compared to the world average.
Power is still unavailable in 20,000 or so remote villages housing about
30 million people.
About 60 per cent of China's 768 million rural residents still use open
fires to cook on or heat their homes, creating serious pollution and
health problems, while damaging vegetation.
The NPC Standing Committee also passed a fifth amendment to the criminal
law yesterday at its concluding session, altering rules on
credit-card-related offenses as well as adding a charge on damaging
military facilities.
The committee also issued a decision on expert testimony. It ruled that
expert testimony agencies should be transformed into independent civil
services, rather than subordinate to judicial departments as they are now.
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