China tries to increase energy efficiency
BEIJING: China's drive to improve energy efficiency lost pace in the i first half of2008, data showed. The country used 2.88 percent less energy to generate each dollar of national income in the six months to June than the same period the previous year, the National Bureau of Statistics said. Last year it cut its energy intensity by 3.66 percent. China set a target of improving energy intensity by 4 percent a year from 2006, but ultimately managed only a 1.79 percent improvement that year. (Reuters)