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Based on detailed data, combined with changes from the domestic and foreign politics and economic structures, this book conducts a profound analysis of the present macro and micro characteristics of the energy industry, by using the combination of quantitative and qualitative analytical methods. Its aim is to take advantage of all opportunities and challenges within the structural reconfiguration of the energy industry and the transformation of development patterns. Additionally, it forecasts future trends and puts forward practical measures for promoting the scientific development of the energy industry.

The Annual Report on China’s Energy Development (2013) contains three parts: general report, industry operations, and current issues. Based on the rapidly changing economy in China, the first part provides an inventory of operations and development trends of the energy industry, analyzes the problems in the institutional reform of the energy industry. The second part analyzes the development course and current situation of the operation in the coal, petroleum, natural gas, electric power and new energy sectors. On this basis, it looks forward to the development prospect of all industries. Combining current issues in the energy industry, the third part analyzes the development of the distributed energy, the tax policy of the new energy sector, the development of natural gas industry in the world, resource products pricing reform and the crisis of the photovoltaic industry, and so on. And it gives suggestions to the sustainable development of China’s energy industry, by drawing on domestic and foreign development experience and combining it with China’s national conditions.