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Figure 1-20. Transport Sector Final Energy Use by Source (1980-2017)
Source: NBS, various years (b).
Notes: 1) Electricity is converted to standard energy units using China’s Power Plant Coal Consumption method. 2)
Transport sector energy consumption values have undergone several revisions and the national figures have been
revised to 1996, which explains the series discontinuity in that year.
Figure 1-22 shows the growth in China’s industrial sector’s final energy consumption by fuel
source. While coal, coke, and coal gas are the predominant fuel sources used in China’s
industrial sector, their share has decreased from 66% in 1980 to 51% in 2017. Use of petroleum
for industrial production has also declined from 17.4% in 1980 to 11.6% in 2017 while the share
of natural gas has fluctuated slightly between 5.5% in 1980 to a low of 2.7% in 1998 and then
6.8% in 2017. The decreased reliance on coal and petroleum was replaced by increasing use of
electricity, which grew from an 8.8% share in 1980 to 25% in 2017, with 70% of the electricity
produced by coal. As such, industry is also the main source of the country’s environmental
pollutants, emitting 70–90% of atmospheric emissions of sulfur dioxide (SO2), nitrogen oxides
(NOx), and total suspended particulate matter in 2010—the primary drivers of air pollution in
China’s cities (MEP, 2014).
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