Preliminary statistics showed that in the first quarter, total energy supply (production + net imports) valued at 655 million tons of standard coal, increasing 3.45 percent year-on-year, speed up 1.65 percentage points over previous quarter. Of which, total energy production reached 585 million tons of standard coal, up 4.31 percent year-on-year; net import accounted for 69.78 million tons of standard coal, dropped 3.28 percent year-on-year.
Total energy consumption grew to 664 million tons of standard coal, a year-on-year increase of 3.04 percent, and speed up 2.25 percentage points over the previous quarter.
At the end of the first quarter, energy stocks in the whole country reduced 2.91 percent from the beginning of the year, stood at general level over the same period of previous year, which appeared seasonal declined.
Coal, electricity and other energy consumption rose, while growth of oil consumption increased
In the first quarter, coal consumption hit 649 million tons, a year-on-year increase of 2.69 percent, rose 10.71 percentage points over previous quarter. Electricity consumption arrived at 781 billion kwh, fell 4.02 percent year-on-year, and narrowed 1.98 percentage points over previous quarter. Refined oil consumption amounted to 57.35 million tons, 6.35 percent dropped year-on-year, increased 3.83 percentage points over previous quarter.
Energy consumption of basic industries and key energy-consuming industrial enterprises was booming up
Comparing the fourth quarter of last year, the decreasing or increasing rate of energy consumption of power and raw materials and other basic industries was narrowed or enlarged. Of which, electrical power industry descended 8.91 percent, narrowed decreasing rate by3.56 percentage points; iron and steel industry was declining 5.66 percent, narrowed decreasing rate by 12.02 percentage points; chemical raw materials industry dropped 10.59 percent, narrowed decreasing rate by 4.34 percentage points; building materials industry increased 3.32 percent, booming up increasing rate by 2.42 percentage points.
In the first quarter, the annual energy consumption of key industrial enterprises in the whole country stood at 10,000 tons of standard coal or more decreased 5.0 percent over the same period of previous year, narrowed 6.95 percentage points over previous quarter. Key industrial enterprises in energy consumption since November 2008 were constantly picking up (rose 2.34 percentage points monthly).
Unit GDP energy consumption continues to decline
The growth of total energy consumption and GDP stood at 3.04 and 6.1 percent respectively, in accordance with preliminary data accounting, national energy consumption of unit GDP was 2.89 percent lower in the first quarter, year-on-year, while that of increased 0.27 percentage points over the same period of previous year which stood at 2.62 percent.
The overall energy consumption rebounded, and decrease of unit GDP energy consumption, indicated that the Party Central Committee and State Council taken by the "package" plan to cope with the international financial crisis and stimulate economic growth, which kept economic growth on the one hand, and promoted the economic structural adjustment, and energy-saving and emission reduction on the other hand, which embodies the basic requirements of scientific concept of development.
The main reason of unit GDP energy consumption decrease was:
Significant energy-saving effectiveness drove economic structure changes. Positive changes in the economic structure in the first quarter, the proportion of tertiary industry were up by 1.6 percentage points, year-on-year, that of industry sectors decreased 1.9 percentage points year-on-year. The internal industrial structure accounted for about 70 percent of energy consumption developed in the direction of low power. For example, the growth rate of value-added of top six industrial sectors with higher energy consumption narrowed increasing rate amounted to 2.8 percentage points of all above-scale enterprises, reduced 12.5 percentage points over same period of previous year.
Energy efficiency gained further improves. In the key industrial enterprises, annually energy consumption reached and more than 10,000 tons of standard coal, 25 key energy-consuming products, and 108 consumption indicators appeared descending order which over 80 percent. Efficiency of energy conversion processing was booming up. In the first quarter, overall efficiency of various energy conversion processing promoted 1.55 percentage points; five out of eight kinds of energy conversion processing gained improve. Energy recycling of key energy-consuming enterprises reached 19.35 million tons of standard coal, that of recycling utilization rate accounted for 2.25 percent.
Energy consumption of value-added of industrial units in various industrial sectors reduced in general. Energy consumption of unit value-added of 39 major categories above large-scale industrial sector decreased in the first quarter, of which, petroleum and petrochemical industry declined 9.80 percent, that of chemical raw materials industry decreased 14.44 percent, that of building materials industry dropped 8.24 percent, that of iron and steel industry descended 7.51 percent, that of non-ferrous industry fell 16.58 percent, and that of electrical power industry reduced 10.17 percent.
