Energy & Science
Xi Vows Focus on Emission Cuts, End Energy-Inefficient Projects
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China will make cutting emissions a focus of its ecological strategy in the next five years, President Xi Jinping said, vowing to call off projects which consume a lot of energy and can’t meet environmental standards.
“The carbon neutral and emission-peaking goals are solemn promises China has made to the world,” Xi said at a study session of the Communist Party’s Politburo on Friday. “They will bring about broad and profound economic and social reforms and they will not be achieved easily,” according to a statement carried by the official Xinhua news agency, which cited him.