World's first plant for ethanol production from coal was built in China and has been in operation stably for over two months, the Chinese Academy of Sciences said on March 17th. The plant launched by Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics and Shaanxi Yanchang Petroleum Group, put into production in January with capacity of 100,000 metric tons of anhydrous ethanol per year.

China's climate change targets for the next couple of decades will ensure its accumulative carbon dioxide emissions are less than the United States and Europe by 2030, a Chinese scientist has said. China's determined contributions to the global fight against climate change were announced on June 30. These ambitious targets include an up to 65 percent reduction in carbon dioxide emissions per unit of gross domestic product (GDP) from the 2005 level by 2030, and achieving a peak in carbon dioxide emissions around 2030.