Atmospheric pollution, acid rain, ozonosphère damage, environmental deterioration
and a continuous reduction in biological species have become common concerns of the present
day world community. It is becoming increasingly clear that worsening deterioration in the
global environment has endangered the lives and development of all mankind. The energy
industry is, at the same time, the physical foundation for the development of modern society
and an important source of environmental pollution. Therefore, it is a realistic and severe
challenge to seek economically feasible and environmentally sound approaches to developing
the energy industry. To achieve appropriate growth in the national economy, China will
employ some strategic measures to control pollution growth, to save energy and to increase
the efficiency of energy utilization. To raise the share of primary energy used for electricity
generation, China plans to set up integrated bases near the coal mines for coal, electricity and
power plants, as well as to spread the innovation of boilers and popularize the use of fluidized
bed combustion and desulphurizing facilities. Also on the agenda are programmes to replace
decentralized heating boilers with co-generation units, and to develop and utilize energy
resources that cause less or no pollution. China also intends to develop nuclear energy,
encourage the use o f wind energy, solar energy and biogas resources in remote pastoral and
mountainous areas, promote research on new and renewable energy resources, follow the line
of advanced technologies, etc. Because industrialized countries produce three-quarters of the
C 0 2 emitted into the atmosphere, they should be made accountable for having caused
irreparable global environmental pollution. They should also undertake more of the responsibility
for global environmental protection, since their financial resources are greater and their
technologies more advanced.