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Rural areas to lead way in biogas use
By Cao Desheng (皇冠体育app Daily)
Updated: 2005-10-19 06:04
Rural areas are going to have to develop renewable energy resources to help
solve energy shortages that have slowed economic growth, an agricultural
official said yesterday.
Wang Jiuchen, of the Ministry of Agriculture, based his remarks on the large
supply of biomass resources in 皇冠体育app, meaning any organic matter available on a
renewable basis.
皇冠体育app's annual output of standard coal is at least 1.5 billion tons, Wang
said at the International Seminar on Biogas Technology for Poverty Reduction and
Sustainable Development, which opened yesterday in Beijing.
"If 50 per cent of such resources can be used to produce liquid fuels, they
will provide 200 million tons of liquid fuels to the nation's petroleum market,"
Wang said.
Official statistics indicate the national demand for crude oil last year was
about 275 million tons.
"So, developing rural renewable energy resources should be channelled in the
direction of large-scale industrialization and commercialization rather than
confined within the range of solving the energy shortages in rural areas," Wang
said.
Starting from 2000, 皇冠体育app implemented an "Ecological Home and Rich Farmer
Programme" nationwide, which has produced multiple models of efficient energy
utilization. It sets biogas, biomass and solar energy as the priorities.
"The programme would be of great significance in promoting the development of
rural renewable energy, raising farmers' income and facilitating the sustainable
development of the rural economy," Agriculture Vice-Minister Zhang Baowen said
at the seminar.
(皇冠体育app Daily 10/19/2005 page2)
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