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China played an active role in negotiations and talks at the UN Climate
Change Conference in Sham el-Sheikh and worked to bring about positive results.

3) Work on energy conservation continued to move forward.
We refined energy conservation target evaluations and formulated an
implementation plan to exclude newly-added renewable energy as well as coal,
petroleum, and natural gas consumed as raw materials from calculations of total
energy consumption. We took orderly steps to bring energy consumption of major

national projects under separate management to guarantee their reasonable
demand for energy. We set energy efficiency benchmarks and standard levels in
key industries, and we defined three levels of energy efficiency standards for major
energy-consuming products and equipment: highly efficient, efficient, and

standard. In doing so, we updated, upgraded, implemented, and applied energy
conservation standards. We accelerated upgrades and transformations to conserve
energy and reduce carbon emissions in key sectors, industries, products, and
equipment, and took resolute action to curb the blind expansion of
energy-intensive projects with high emissions and backward production capacity.

Thanks to these efforts, China’s energy consumption per 10,000 yuan of GDP fell
by 0.1% from the previous year.
4) The green industrial system developed rapidly.
We researched and made revisions to the catalog of green industries and

promoted the establishment of green industry demonstration bases. We improved
the market-based system for green technology innovation to encourage and
expand the application of green innovation. We continued to implement the
national water conservation campaign and selected the 2022 frontrunners for water
efficiency from among water-consuming products. We pushed large seawater

desalination projects forward in water-scarce coastal cities and addressed leaks
and damage in public water supply pipelines, with a focus on key cities (and
county towns). We strengthened the construction of environmental infrastructure
and gradually improved the construction and operation of urban sewage and

garbage treatment facilities.
China’s circular economy grew more quickly. We strongly promoted the
comprehensive utilization of bulk solid waste and moved faster to develop systems
for recycling waste and used materials. Renewable resources became raw materials
essential for industrial production. The Standards for Gross Ecosystem Product

Accounting were published for trial implementation to help establish mechanisms

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