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    By WANG MINGJIE | China Daily | Updated: 2018-04-25 08:49
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    The new Ministry of Ecology and Environment shows Beijing's determination to reconcile economic growth with environmental protection, according to a British energy policy adviser.

    President Xi Jinping's speech on the subject at last year's 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, coupled with the creation of the ministry in March, demonstrates a strong commitment to address the issue, said Neil Hirst, a senior policy fellow at the Grantham Institute for Climate Change and the Environment at Imperial College London.

    "It's a tough call because China still needs rapid economic growth to fight against poverty and achieve the aim of a moderately prosperous society," he added.

    Hirst, who works with the Chinese government on its policies on international energy cooperation, said, "The fact that more than 1,000 officials are to be punished for failing to fulfill environmental protection duties is a sign of determination, but it is also, perhaps, an indication of the extent of the challenge."

    At the recent launch of his book The Energy Conundrum: Climate Change, Global Prosperity, and the Tough Decisions We Have to Make, Hirst lauded China's aim of reducing the energy intensity of its economy by 15 percent between 2015 and 2020, saying it is the most important target as it detaches economic growth from carbon emissions. He said success requires the rapid rebalancing of the economy from heavy industry toward services and domestic demand.

    "It will require further improvement in industrial efficiency and energy regulation, which are already high priorities for the government," said Hirst, who added that it will also be important to continue to adopt low-carbon technologies, such as solar and wind energy.

    Hirst said developing countries are responsible for most greenhouse gas emissions and will produce all future growth in the emissions.

    During the 2018 two sessions meetings in Beijing, Li Ganjie, minister of ecology and environment, emphasized that green development is the way for countries involved in the Belt and Road Initiative to achieve a promising future.

    Hirst said that means the emphasis should be on their improving energy efficiency and on low-carbon energy sources such as renewables, hydro and nuclear power.

    "It would probably be unrealistic to rule out new coal generation altogether," he said, but only the "absolute minimum" new coal plants should be built, and they should be "highly efficient". In addition to concentrating on low-carbon hardware, "the Belt and Road Initiative should also help to educate governments, industry and people in the low-carbon policies, technologies and practices that China is now beginning to pursue at home", Hirst said.

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