It’s the result of a last-minute effort to meet targets for reducing the country’s energy intensity—the amount of power consumed per unit of GDP produced.

临近考核末期，一些地方为 达到国家节能减排指标—— 降低每单位 GDP能源消耗——而“临时抱佛脚”的行为导致了上述现象的发生。

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This five-year program stresses that energy consumption intensity per unit GDP shall decrease by 20% in the next five years.

强调未来五年单位GDP的能源消耗要降低20%。

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So we think copper's role is a very significant and important one to address this question of energy consumption and intensity of energy per unit of GDP output.

我们认为，铜在降低每单元GDP产值的能源消耗量这个问题上起着非常重要的作用。

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In 2006 China set a target of a 20% cut by 2010 of its energy intensity (the amount of energy consumed per unit of GDP).

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Using energy intensity as a measure, the U.S. is using slightly more than 9, 000 BTUs per dollar of GDP.

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