China to impose energy efficiency in metals industry

China hopes to save energy by reducing energy use in the nonferrous metals industry.

According to The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, an equivalent to 7.5 million tons of standard coal will be saved if they improve energy efficiency by 18 percent by end of 2015.

The energy use per unit of industrial output fell 19.6 percent in the nonferrous metals industry in the five years through 2010.

The nonferrous metals industry used energy equivalent to 151.38 million tons of standard coal in 2011, or 4.4 percent of the nation's total energy consumption.

To achieve the targets, the government will phase out obsolete capacity in aluminum smelting and copper, lead and zinc refining, according to the ministry.

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