ABSTRACT
At the start of the Eleventh Five-Year Plan on national social and economic development in 2005, binding and quantified targets for energy conservation and emissions reduction were proposed for the first time. That is, compared with the base year of 2005, energy consumption per unit of gross domestic product (GDP) and emissions major pollutants (sulfur dioxide, SO2 and chemical oxygen demand, COD) would be reduced by 20 percent and 10 percent respectively by 2010. Energy conservation and emissions reduction is both a solemn commitment to Chinese society and a focus of the international community; it is also an inevitable choice for adjusting the economic structure, converting the national growth mode, and constructing a resource-saving and environment-friendly society. In this chapter, the achievement and approaches of the Eleventh Five-Year Plan are assessed.
