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RECOMMENDATIONS AND CONCLUSIONS
Applying Key Case Study Features

Vision
Economic growth with balance and harmony for China (CPRC) and Inner
Mongolia (IMAR).

Objectives

1. For the PRC as a whole, as provided in the Five-Year Plan for National
Economy and Social Development:
l Approved: October 2005
l Authorized by: the 16th Central Committee of the Communist Party of
China
l Period covered: 2006e10
Quantitative near-term national targets:
l Double the per capita gross domestic product (GDP) from the 2000 level
($800) to $1600
l Reduce energy consumption per GDP to 20% less than that in 2006 by
2010
l Keep population growth below 1%
Midterm (by 2020) national objectives:
l Quadruple the per capita GDP from the 2000 leveldfrom $800 to $3000
l Have GDP average growth of 7.2% per annum
l Create a “moderately well-off society”
Long-term (by 2030) national objectives:
l Achieve full-scale industrialization
l Solid infrastructure
l Wide-scale urbanization
l Decrease percentage of high-energy-consuming industries (Fig. 18.1)
2. For IMAR:
l To become a major player in making China energy independent
l Take advantage of IMAR’s unique strengths to make it a strategic
energy base in the near term
l Expand development and commercialization of renewable resources
l Revise and reinvigorate coal production through the conversion of coal
to liquid and/or gaseous fuels with most modern clean technologies with
near-zero emissions of greenhouse gases (GHG)
l Provide infrastructure to both amply supply IMAR with its own energy
needs and export to both China and the world
l Develop and expand on-site or distributed energy generation for
communities with available and future energy generation sources