With demand for oil growing at 8 per cent a year, mostly met by imports, the country is the biggest contributor to the annual increase in oil consumption.

Nowadays, China is the only country of oil consumption who consumes coal principally, and she is also the second leading country of energy consumption .

China became the world's second largest oil consuming country in 2003 with the proportion of oil import to the country's total consumption accounting for 36 percent.