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China - the World's Largest Emitter of Greenhouse Gases

In future, Chinese urbanisation and the need for extra electricity, mostly fuelled by coal, will also be big contributors to energy consumption and emissions. Beijing is shy about neither the urgency of the problem nor the fact that policies have so far made little impact.

Economists said that The Chinese economy has continued to grow in a traditional fashion. Beijing has been awash with rumours that the government is preparing to announce new headline policies to hasten structural change in the economy, perhaps even at the cost of temporarily slowing growth.

These rumours were fuelled by a delay in the statistics bureau press conference to announce the figures for gross domestic product, and the assignation.

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