Plan for industrial energy saving to be issued

According to the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT)， the Twelfth Five Year Plan (2011-2015) of industrial energy saving will be established soon, Shanghai Securities News reported on Monday.

The plan will set the energy saving goals for major industries during the Twelfth Five Year Plan period, according to Yang Tiesheng, vice director of the Department of Energy Conservation and Resources Utilization of the MIIT.

Yang told the paper the energy consumption per unit of industrial value-added output during the Twelfth Five Year period will decrease by 21 percent compared to the Eleventh Five Year period.

The energy consumption of industrial value-added output of steel, non-ferrous metal, building materials, petrochemical and the power industry will decrease by 18 percent to 20 percent, the paper reported.