——环境保护成效突出。中国加快采煤沉陷区治理,建立并完善煤炭开发和生态环境恢复补偿机制。2011年,原煤入选率达到52%,土地复垦率40%。加快建设燃煤电厂脱硫、脱硝设施,烟气脱硫机组占全国燃煤机组的比重达到90%左右。燃煤机组除尘设施安装率和废水排放达标率达到100%。加大煤层气(煤矿瓦斯)开发利用力度,抽采量达到114亿立方米,在全球率先实施了煤层气国家排放标准。五年来,单位国内生产总值能耗下降减排二氧化碳14.6亿吨。
——体制机制不断完善。市场机制在资源配置中发挥出越来越大的作用。能源领域投资主体实现多元化,民间投资不断发展壮大。煤炭生产和流通基本实现市场化。电力工业实现政企分开、厂网分离,监管体系初步建立。能源价格改革不断深化,价格形成机制逐步完善。开展了煤炭工业可持续发展政策措施试点。制定了风电与光伏发电标杆上网电价制度,建立了可再生能源发展基金等制度。加强能源法制建设,近年来新修订出台了《节约能源法》、《可再生能源法》、《循环经济促进法》、《石油天然气管道保护法》以及《民用建筑节能条例》、《公共机构节能条例》等法律法规。
-- Remarkable progress in environmental protection. The country is quickening the pace of control of coal mining subsidence areas, and establishes and improves the compensation mechanism for the exploitation of coal resources and restoration of the eco-environment. In 2011, the coal washing rate reached 52 percent and the land reclamation rate, 40 percent. Existing power plants have speeded up their desulfurization and denitration upgrading, and coal-fueled generating units with flue gas desulphurization facilities accounted for 90 percent of the national total. Coal-fueled generating units reported a 100-percent installation of dust-cleaning facilities and a 100-percent discharge of waste water up to the relevant standards. The state is intensifying efforts for the development and utilization of coal bed methane (CBM), extracting 11.4 billion sq m of CBM in 2011. China became the first country to adopt a national standard for CBM emissions. Its energy consumption per unit of GDP has dropped over the past five years, eliminating 1.46 billion tons of CO2 discharge.
-- Energy systems and mechanisms gradually improving. The market mechanism is playing an increasingly important role in resource allocation. Investors in the energy field are diversified, and private investment in it keeps growing. Market competition has been introduced into the production and distribution of coal. In the electric power industry, government administrative functions and enterprise management have been separated, as has power production from power transmission, and a supervisory system has taken shape. Energy pricing reform has been deepening, and the pricing mechanism is gradually improving. Relevant policies and measures for the sustainable development of the coal industry have been tried out. The state has also established a feed-in tariff (FIT) system for wind and photovoltaic power generation, and a renewable energy development fund. The legal system of energy-related laws has been strengthened, and a number of laws and regulations have been amended and published in the past few years, including the Energy Conservation Law, Renewable Energy Law, Circular Economy Promotion Law, Law on the Protection of Oil and Natural Gas Pipelines, Regulations on Energy Conservation in Civil Buildings, and Regulations on Energy Conservation by Public Institutions.