China Halfway Home On Renewable Energy Law

CHINA has finished drafting more than half of the 12 regulations that will be used to implement the landmark renewable-energy law enacted last year, a senior government official said yesterday.

"Work on seven to eight rules is done," said Xu Dingming, deputy director-general of the Office of the National Energy Leading Group, which is in charge of China's energy strategy and policies.

Xu made the comments in Shanghai at an energy conference organized by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

The official declined to specify which rules were finished or provide a schedule for when the entire job would be done.

The government earlier announced it would issue a dozen specific regulations ranging from pricing to preferential policies to standardize and develop the fledging renewable energy sector.

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