China has taken building resource-efficient society as a basic principle for economic and social development of the country, said Ma Kai, minister in charge of State Development and Reform Commission (SDRC) on Saturday.

At the China Development Forum on Building Resource-Efficient Society being held from June 25 to 26, Ma Kai said China endeavors to speed up its move in building a resource efficient society by making policies and regulations.

China will take efficiency of resources as the primary principle in all sectors of the national economy, said Ma.

He siad the aim of building resource-efficient society will be written in the 11th Five-Year Plan and be taken as an important instructive principle in designing various plans and reform projects of governments at all levels.

Ma emphasized the importance of legislation and supervision in building an energy-efficient society and the indispensability of encouraging system with pricing and taxation as the major tools.

To establish an energy-efficient society, China should also encourage technological innovation in resource efficiency and recycling use, to make the market play an effective role by adopting new systems such as demand-side control in electricity use and to establish a energy-conserving atmosphere in the whole society by education, said Ma.

Source: Xinhua