Industrial Sector
Current Development and Trend of the Industrial Sector1.
State of Energy Consumption and CO 2 Emissions of China's Industrial SectorAs a key pillar of China's economic growth, the industrial sector constitutes the dominant source of energy consumption and CO 2 emissions. In 2018, the added value of China's industrial sector was 30.5 trillion RMB, accounting for 33.9% of GDP. Energy is consumed by the industrial sector for fuel combustion and raw materials, etc. [1]. In 2017, The end-use energy consumption of the industrial sector registered at 2.83 billion tce, comprising 64.8% of the total end-use energy consumption. Energy consumption of the industrial sector is mainly attributable to six energy intensive industries, including power, steel, cement, petrochemical, chemical and non-ferrous metal, which made up 75.1% of the total primary energy consumption of the industrial sector in 2017 [2] (see Fig. 3.1). Industrial CO 2 emissions include those from energy activities and industrial production processes. However, due to delayed survey and accounting, the statistics of CO 2 emissions of the industrial sector is relatively not up to date and inconsistent with the accounting standard of industrial output and energy consumption. The First Biennial Update Report on Climate Change reveals that the CO 2 emissions from fuel combustion in the industrial and construction sectors and from industrial production processes in China totaled 8.48 billion tons in 2012, or 91.0% of the total CO 2 emissions of the year (including land use changes and forestry), of which CO 2 emissions from fuel combustion of the industrial and construction sectors stood at 7.28 billion tons, which is 83.8% of the total CO 2 emissions from energy activities.