China's renewable energy use accounts for 8.3 percent of total fuel consumption, said a government official.
Demand for energy from renewable sources reached 220 million tons of coal equivalent in 2007, Xie Zhenhua, vice chairman of the National Development and Reform Commission, said in Beijing today. The commission is the nation's top economic planner.
China, the world's second-largest energy user after the U.S., aims to get 10 percent of its total energy supply from renewable sources by 2010 and expand that to 15 percent by 2020, the commission said last September.
