BEIJING, Dec. 25 (Xinhua) -- Central China's Henan Province introduced an action plan on December 22 aimed to reduce its total coal consumption by 15% compared with that of 2015 with the cumulative reduction reaching 38 million metric tons (tonnes) by 2020, reported the Xinhua-run Shanghai Securities News quoting Henan Daily.
According to the plan, Henan will strictly control the number of new coal-consuming projects by raising the access threshold for high coal-consuming projects and implementing coal consumption reduction replacement mechanism.
In order to consolidate the results achieved through coal consumption reduction actions, the province should make sure the total coal consumption of its seven cities of the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei air pollution transmission channel, namely, Zhengzhou, Kaifeng, Anyang, Hebi, Xinxiang, Jiaozuo and Puyang, drops more greatly than other cities, noted an official of the Henan Province Development and Reform Commission.
The official also said that the total coal consumption of cities under the jurisdiction of the province should be all reduced, and all these cities should achieve negative growth in their total coal consumption for three consecutive years from 2018 to 2020.
Besides, the province will speed up the construction of the 800-kilovolt ultra high-voltage clean power transmission line from northwest China's Qinghai Province to Henan, in a bid to promote the development of non-fossil energy. (Edited by Gu Shanshan)
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