Abstract
Along with the continual economic development with the annual GDP growth rate of 7% - 9%, the demand for energy increases rapidly in the mainland of China (hereafter referred to as China for convenience). According to the statistical data, the total primary energy production was 1603 Mtce (i.e. 1122 Mtoe) in China in 2003, which increased by 11.0% compared with 2002. In the total primary energy production, raw coal was 1667 Mt with the increase rate of 15.0% and crude oil was 170 Mt with the increase rate of 1.8%. Based on estimation, the total energy consumption was 1678 Mtce in China in 2003, which increased by 10.1% compared with 2002; where raw coal was 1579 Mt with the increase rate of 13.6% and crude oil was 252 Mt with the increase rate of 12%. In 2003 China had the net import of 97.41Mt crude oil and product oil, which increased by 36.4% compared with 2002.
It is well known that coal is the main energy source in China. Although the portions of coal in total production and consumption of energy trend to be smaller, coals maintain the first place in the energy sector of China. The total energy production and the total energy consumption of China and their constitutions from 1991 to 2001 are shown in Table 1 and Table 2 respectively.
