China's Energy Security: Challenges and Responses
Article from: OGEL 1 (2008), in China Energy Law and Policy
Abstract
China's energy security is confronted with many challenges in the disparity of energy demand and supply, energy structure, and energy efficiency, etc. Thus China has taken a series of effective countermeasures to address these challenges. China's future energy policy includes: conservation as a priority, reliance on domestic sources primarily, multi-stranded exploitation and development, environmental protection and strengthening cooperation. China's present energy legislation mainly addresses a certain energy sector, lacking a general and comprehensive basic energy law which reflects ...