China has met most of its 5-year goals. It hasn't done so well on emissions
Their preliminary assessment found that China will struggle to meet its targets for energy consumption and carbon emissions reduction, despite efficient water usage and progress on green energy. They said the rise in coal consumption from 2020 to 2023 had resulted in a lack of improvement in energy output efficiency per unit of GDP.
The analysis was carried out by Hu Angang and Zhou Shaojie, director and deputy director of the Institute for Contemporary China Studies at Tsinghua, and their findings were published in the Chinese-language Journal of Beijing University of Technology (Social Sciences Edition) on January 27.
They said progress in the first three to four years of the current five-year plan was 'generally in line with expectations'.
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