During their recent inspection at Nanshi Power Plant and Shanghai Energy-saving Inspection Center, officials from Shanghai Municipal Government said that they would rather sacrifice speed and total volume of production for the sake of achieving this year's goal of energy saving.
Local media reports that Shanghai mayor Han Zheng emphasized during the inspection that the city would reduce its energy consumption by 4% and pollutant emissions by 2% this year. He put forward ten measures for achieving the goal of energy saving and pollution emission.
The ten measures are: strictly controlling high energy consumption and polluting enterprises; speeding up the cleansing of enterprises with backward production facilities; closing down small firepower plant and initiating new power plant projects; strengthening the management of key energy consumption enterprises; strengthening the management of key energy saving sectors; pushing forward technological improvement on energy saving; implementing differentiated electricity prices; enlarging the investment on energy saving efforts; consolidating the construction of pollution elimination projects; and strengthening the supervision on pollution emission.
