Industrial updates urged in conservation campaign

China pledged to boost its cleaner production technologies in the next decade, as a major effort to control its growing energy consumption and pollution emissions during the production process, officials said.

More advanced technologies on saving energy, water and land should be put into use for industrial production, Liu Pingjun, vice-minister of the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine, said on Sept 26. Speaking at a forum in Beijing on low-carbon industry and quality development, Liu said industrial enterprises must adopt energy-efficient, low-emission equipment to work toward China's ambitious target on energy conservation and emissions reduction.

"China will experience a period of fast development of industrialization in the next decade. The percentage of carbon dioxide emissions from industrial activity will remain high," he said.

In the coming five years, low carbon will be the theme of the country's development of power industry, Tian Shihong, a quality management official from the administration said at the forum. “Clean energy, such as hydroelectric power, wind power, nuclear power, and solar power, will become the country's major development task in the power industry,” he said.

In 2011, production and supply of electricity and heat accounted for nearly 50 percent of the country's carbon dioxide emissions caused by coal consumption, according to government data.