BEIJING, June 11 (Xinhua) -- Pursuing a green growth path, China has been working on all fronts to transform its coal-centered energy structure and build a clean and diversified energy-supply system.

The country has made climate commitments to the world -- peaking carbon dioxide emissions by 2030 and achieving carbon neutrality by 2060 -- with the reform of energy production and consumption playing a crucial role.

Here are some facts and figures reflecting China's achievements on energy development.

-- China aims to build a unified national emissions-trading system to cut greenhouse-gas emissions by incorporating carbon pricing. Earlier this year, a set of interim rules for carbon-emissions trading management in China came into effect.

In the initial phase, a total of 2,225 power firms across the country, assigned with carbon-dioxide emission caps, can trade their emission quotas via the system. Firms that exceed their caps can purchase unused quotas from those with low emissions.

-- In May, Chinese oil and gas enterprises have set up an alliance on the control of methane emissions.

The alliance will focus on promoting the exchange of technology and experience in the field of methane-emission control between alliance members and between the alliance and other domestic and overseas enterprises, bolstering research and adoption of methane-emission control standards and pushing for standardization and transparency of industry emission data.

-- Preliminary calculations show that China's primary energy production in 2019 reached 3.97 billion tonnes of standard coal, making it the world's largest energy producer.

-- China's utilization of renewable energy expanded quickly in 2019, with the installed capacity of hydropower, wind power and photovoltaic power generation ranking first in the world.

-- About 70 years ago, coal accounted for over 90 percent of China's energy consumption, but the proportion fell drastically over the years thanks to the improvement of the energy-consumption structure. In 2019, coal consumption accounted for 57.7 percent of total energy consumption, a decrease of 10.8 percentage points from 2012.

-- Last year, clean energy (natural gas, hydropower, nuclear power, wind power) accounted for 23.4 percent of China's total energy consumption, up 8.9 percentage points over 2012.

-- The green transition of the energy sector played an important role in lowering the intensity of carbon emissions. In 2019, carbon-emission intensity dropped by 48.1 percent from the 2005 level. Enditem

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