Deal with the problem of pollution for a long time China's coal, iron and steel industry thin again

Official data showed on Monday, China's coal consumption dropped for the second year in a row. The world's biggest countries are struggling to cope with pollution with economic growth, the problem of pollution for a long time.

China's national bureau of statistics report shows that China's coal consumption fell by 3.7% last year. In 2014, compared with the previous year fell by 2.9%. China became the second largest economy of the main driving force is cheap, pollution of coal. As the economic growth is slowing, the country is difficult to get rid of the dependence on coal.

Double between 2004 and 2014, China's coal consumption, the consumption of more than 4 billion tons per year. The national bureau of statistics data released Monday showed that last year, the proportion of coal consumption accounts for the total energy consumption dropped to 64%, down from 66% in 2014. Observers expressed cautious optimism. Green peace organization global coal Millie vita larry, a senior official said: "these data suggest that the goal of China is more than the climate conference in Paris, it's a good news for everyone. But the trend is still not fast enough."

Although coal consumption fell, but China's many cities are shrouded in toxic smog, mostly caused by power generation and steel industries using fuel. Chinese club department officials said at a news conference on Monday, the government plans to the 1.8 million workers of steel, coal industry. The two industries have been suffering from excess capacity.

February 29, told the financial times, the original problem: China will shunt placement department said the Chinese club 1.8 million coal steel worker, nearly 2 million coal and steel workers will have lost their jobs due to production policy.

With the outside world to the real amplitude increasing concern of China's economy slows, traditionally belong to stable industry laid-off workers will be forced to compete with each year about 1500 new employment population employment opportunities, this could lead to mass unemployment and social instability. China international capital co., LTD., is expected to last month, in all industries with excess capacity, there will be 30% of the workers lost their jobs. These industries include cement, glass and shipbuilding,steel, coal, etc.

People club department head, said the government will take enough measures to reduce the impact of the labor market, including 100 billion yuan funds for resettlement workers, enterprise more flexible retirement policy, provide professional training for employees, encourage internal staffing, etc.