China energy efficiency 'improves in first half'China cut its average energy consumption by 3.53 percent in the first half of 2009 from a year ago, helped by massive stimulus spending on green projects, the government said Sunday. The figure compared with a decline of 2.89 percent in the first quarter of the year, the National Development and Reform Commission The National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) is a powerful macroeconomic management agency under the Chinese State Council, which has broad administrative and planning control over the Chinese economy. Since 2003 the Commission has been headed by Ma Kai. said in a statement on its website. At the end of 2008, China unveiled a four-trillion-yuan (580-billion-dollar) fiscal package aimed at mitigating mit·i·gate v. mit·i·gat·ed, mit·i·gat·ing, mit·i·gates v.tr. To moderate (a quality or condition) in force or intensity; alleviate. See Synonyms at relieve. v.intr. To become milder. the impact of the global crisis, with part of the money meant to be spent on improved energy efficiency. China has set a goal of reducing average energy consumption by 20 percent from 2006 to 2010. This means that it has to cut average consumption by four percent annually over the five-year period -- a target it has so far failed to meet. Even so, China may pledge to improve its energy efficiency by a wide margin in the post-Kyoto years rather than commit to direct cuts in greenhouse gas greenhouse gas n. Any of the atmospheric gases that contribute to the greenhouse effect. greenhouse gas emissions, state media said in May. As a developing nation China under Kyoto did not accept cuts in greenhouse emissions Noun 1. greenhouse emission - a gas that contributes to the greenhouse effect by absorbing infrared radiation greenhouse gas CFC, chlorofluorocarbon - a fluorocarbon with chlorine; formerly used as a refrigerant and as a propellant in aerosol cans; "the , which are blamed for global warming global warming, the gradual increase of the temperature of the earth's lower atmosphere as a result of the increase in greenhouse gases since the Industrial Revolution. , leading to higher sea levels and other potentially disastrous changes in the climate. China is one of the world's largest emitters of greenhouse gases. 
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