Newsweek reports:

As in India, another economic comer with power problems, China has been growing so fast, for so long, that the central government has lost control of the energy industry. Nearly half the coal plants built in China between 2001 and 2005 were small, old-fashioned models erected by local officials, often without Beijing's full approval. President Hu Jintao and Prime Minister Wen Jiabao are trying to change that. They've made energy efficiency a national priority—and the central government will spend hundreds of billions over the next 20 years building nuclear plants and developing renewable-energy platforms such as solar forests, wind farms, biomass fuels, not to mention qingjie meitan, or clean-coal technology.

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