China's 2009 energy consumption per capita one-fifth of US

　　Official data released by China and the United States shows China's energy consumption in 2009 was more than 200 million tons of standard oil less than that of the United States, and China's per capita energy consumption was about one-fifth of that of the United States, the National Energy Bureau and the National Bureau of Statistics reported on Aug. 11.

　　The National Bureau of Energy and the National Bureau of Statistics pointed out that preliminary statistics show the amount of China's primary energy production in 2009 stood at nearly 2.8 billion tons of standard coal, an increase of more than 5 percent compared with 2008, and the growth rate fell 0.4 percentage points.

　　Meanwhile, the amount of China's total energy consumption in 2009 was nearly 3.1 billion tons of standard coal, an increase of more than 5 percent, and the growth rate increased by more than 1 percentage points.

　　Using the international method, China's energy consumption in 2009 can be expressed as more than 2.1 billion tons of standard oil, and its per capita energy consumption was more than 1.6 tons of standard oil. In 2009, the amount of the U.S. energy consumption stood at nearly 2.4 billion tons of standard oil, according to the data released by the Web site of the U.S. Energy Information Administration in July.

　　Therefore, China's energy consumption in 2009 was more than 200 million tons of standard oil less than that of the United States and its per capita energy consumption was about one-fifth of that of the United States.

　　From 2004 to 2009, the growth rate of China's total energy consumption fell from more than 16 percent to more than 5 percent, a decline of nearly 10 percentage points, and the annual average growth rate declined more than 2 percentage points. In addition, China's energy consumption per each 10,000 yuan of GDP declined from nearly 1.3 tons of standard coal to nearly 1.1 tons of standard coal during the first four years of the 11th Five-Year Plan period.

　　By People's Daily Online