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CHINA:
A SUCCESS STORY
source: IEA, ‘World Energy Outlook’, 2002,
http://www.iea.org/textbase/
nppdf/free/2000/weo2002.pdf
www.biodiversityhotspots.org
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The majority of people who have not access to electricity live with less than US$2/day (the poverty line). However, income is not the only determinant in electricity access:
- with 56% of its people still poor, China has managed to supply electricity to more than 98% of its population in 2000;
- 1985-2000: electricity generation in China increased by nearly 1,000 TWh. 84% of it is coal-fired, most of the rest hydroelectric;
- the electrification goal was part of China’s poverty alleviation campaign in the mid-1980s backed with subsidies & low-interest loans.
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