{"id":1828,"date":"2016-04-15T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-04-15T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/master.k8s.p4.greenpeace.org\/eastasia\/aboutus\/1828\/data-shows-chinas-economy-is-breaking-free-from-coal-greenpeace\/"},"modified":"2019-11-23T21:26:34","modified_gmt":"2019-11-24T05:26:34","slug":"data-shows-chinas-economy-is-breaking-free-from-coal-greenpeace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/eastasia\/press\/1828\/data-shows-chinas-economy-is-breaking-free-from-coal-greenpeace\/","title":{"rendered":"Data shows China\u2019s economy is breaking free from coal &#8211; Greenpeace"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Beijing, 15 April, 2016 \u2013 A trove of data on economic performance in the first quarter of 2016, released by China\u2019s National Bureau of Statistics this morning, shows that while China\u2019s overall economy saw some improvement, coal use and CO2 continue to fall. Electricity consumption grew 3% year on year, but growth in non-fossil energy pushed fossil power generation down by over 2%. Coal output fell by a dramatic 5%, as coal-fired power generation and steel output was scaled back.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p>\u201cToday\u2019s data shows that China\u2019s economy is breaking free from coal,\u201d said Greenpeace\u2019s senior campaigner on coal, Lauri Myllyvirta.<\/p>\n\n<p>\u201cClean energy is booming and the economic structure is shifting rapidly away from smokestack industries. This is major news for China and the whole world.\u201d<\/p>\n\n<p>The dramatic remaking of China\u2019s economic structure is highlighted by the widening gap between growth in power demand from the \u201cold\u201d and \u201cnew\u201d economic sectors. Manufacturing electricity consumption was flat while demand from service and household sectors grew 11%.<\/p>\n\n<p>The rapid reduction in China\u2019s reliance on coal and coal-fired power is a boon for global efforts to fight climate change, but should also draw more attention to ballooning overcapacity in coal-fired power and heavy industry. As a legacy of the country\u2019s coal boom, China still has the equivalent of 300 large coal-fired power plants under construction, despite massive overcapacity. [1] A ban on issuing new permits for coal-fired power plants must be implemented and existing overcapacity curtailed.<\/p>\n<div><strong>Notes to editor:<\/strong><br \/>[1] The Greenpeace report \u2018Is China Doubling Down on its Coal Power Bubble\u2019 can be seen <a href=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-eastasia-stateless\/2019\/11\/ed513b67-ed513b67-greenpeace_doubling-down-on-coal-power-2015-update.pdf\">here<\/a><\/div>\n<div><strong>Media contacts:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Tom Baxter,<br \/>International Communications Officer, Greenpeace East Asia,<br \/>email: <a href=\"mailto:tom.baxter@greenpeace.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">tom.baxter@greenpeace.org<\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\ndocument.write(dc('Eoi_1', 'AB_CC_D9_C4_85_CE_C8_CA_CE_DB_C5_CE_CE_D9_CC_EB_D9_CE_DF_D3_CA_C9_85_C6_C4_DF'));\/\/--><\/script><br \/>phone: +86 188 1134 4861<\/p>\n<p>Lauri Myllyvirta,<br \/>Senior Campaigner, Coal, Greenpeace<br \/>email: <a href=\"mailto:lauri.myllyvirta@greenpeace.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">lauri.myllyvirta@greenpeace.org<\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\ndocument.write(dc('Eoi_2', 'A1_C6_D3_CE_8F_C4_C2_C0_C4_D1_CF_C4_C4_D3_C6_E1_C0_D5_D3_C8_D7_D8_CD_CD_D8_CC_8F_C8_D3_D4_C0_CD'));\/\/--><\/script><br \/>phone: +85264113465<\/p>\n<p>Greenpeace International Press Desk<br \/>email: <a href=\"mailto:pressdesk.int@greenpeace.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pressdesk.int@greenpeace.org<\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\ndocument.write(dc('Eoi_3', '95_F2_E7_FA_BB_F0_F6_F4_F0_E5_FB_F0_F0_E7_F2_D5_E1_FB_FC_BB_FE_E6_F0_F1_E6_E6_F0_E7_E5'));\/\/--><\/script>,<br \/>phone: +31 (0) 20 718 2470 (available 24 hours)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div>\n\tBeijing, 15 April, 2016 &#8211; A trove of data on economic performance in the first quarter of 2016, released by China\u2019s National Bureau of Statistics this morning, shows that while China\u2019s overall economy saw some improvement, coal use and CO2 continue to fall. Electricity consumption grew 3% year on year, but growth in non-fossil energy pushed fossil power generation down by over 2%. Coal output fell by a dramatic 5%, as coal-fired power generation and steel output was scaled back.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":2066,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"p4_og_title":"","p4_og_description":"","p4_og_image":"","p4_og_image_id":"","p4_seo_canonical_url":"","p4_campaign_name":"not set","p4_local_project":"","p4_basket_name":"not set","p4_department":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[18],"p4-page-type":[14],"class_list":["post-1828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-energy","tag-coal","p4-page-type-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/eastasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/eastasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/eastasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/eastasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/eastasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1828"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/eastasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2488,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/eastasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1828\/revisions\/2488"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/eastasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/eastasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/eastasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/eastasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1828"},{"taxonomy":"p4-page-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/eastasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/p4-page-type?post=1828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}