China's government and large
public buildings will be suject to a system to gather, audit and
publish energy consumption information from this year, said Vice
Minister of Construction Qiu Baoxing on Thursday.
Seventeen municipalities and provinces, including
Beijing, Tianjin, Shanghai and Sichuan, will be among the first to implement
the system to calculate energy consumption.
A compulsory energy saving trial system will be
applied to newly built government buildings and large public
buildings, said Qiu.
Efforts to implement energy saving codes and achieve
energy saving goals would be taken into account when evaluating
officials' performance, said Qiu.
The Ministry of Construction would promote the use of
renewable energy to save more energy in buildings, he
said.
Businesses would face severe punishment if they failed
to follow energy saving codes in building design and
construction.
The government was working on preferential policies to
encourage the construction of energy saving buildings, such as
financial subsidies and tax breaks.
The ministry will hold the Third International
Conference on Intelligent, Green and Energy Efficient Buildings and
New Technologies and Products Expo in March to promote the
development of green buildings.
(Xinhua News Agency January 19, 2007)
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