AN INVESTIGATION INTO THE PRESENT SITUATION AND CHARACTERISTICS OF CHINA ENERGY-CONSUMPTION

The present situation of China's energy consumption and its compositio n in the past decade is introduced in this paper. The characteristics of energy consumption in China are: energy sources are mainly supplied domestically; coal predominates in the composition of energy consumpt ion (average 72.5%); industrial energy consumption takes the largest p roportion of the final energy consumption (average 65.6%); the utiliza tion efficiency of energy is low; serious environmental pollution is c aused by coal combustion. It is necessary to conduct technology innova tion for energy conservation because of the low efficiency utilization of energy by appliances and the backwardness of industrial technologi es. China must carry out continuously the principle 'lay equal stress on development and conservation and give priority to conservation in t he near future' with the idea that the economy will have a high growth rate.