President Xi stresses efforts to revolutionize energy sector

President Xi stresses efforts to revolutionize energy sector - Xinhua  While presiding over a meeting of the Central Leading Group on Financial and Economic Affairs, Xi, head of the group, acknowledged that China faces challenges to cope with rising energy demand, supply restraints, huge environmental costs and backward technology. To ensure national energy security, the country needs to take steps to rein in irrational energy consumption and build a diversified supply system that is based on secure supply from multiple channels, clean and efficient use of coal, and the development of non-coal energy, Xi noted...http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/china/2014-06/13/c_133405882.htm?utm_source=The+Sinocism+China+Newsletter&utm_campaign=4e5be99e75-Sinocism06_14_14&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_171f237867-4e5be99e75-29615013&mc_cid=4e5be99e75&mc_eid=5935182a65