The per capita energy consumption for household use will also increase. China's energy consumption elasticity will still be on low level. The total electricity consumption will increase to 2,436 TWh by the year of 2015. The growth of electricity consumption will be slow down. The report describes the perspectives of China's future energy supply, from stand of availability of energy resources and rationality of energy production expansion.
China has abundant coal resources.
Sufficient coal supply will be guaranteed from the stand of resource availability, if management on rational development can be enhances. In coal production industry, the administrative institutional conflicts and irrational competition between state owned coal mine and coal mine of other ownership will be reduced. The coal processing capacity and ratio of coal be washed increase greatly. Many state owned coal mines are equipped with advanced exploitation equipment, however, their management level is low and the production capacity has not be fully used. The stress of coal transportation are being alleviated gradually, while the problem of coal transportation could still be a constraint on large increase of coal supply.