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 oilconsumption.
Nowadays, China is the only country of oilconsumption who consumes coal principally, and she is also the second leading country of energy consumption .
目前,我国是全球唯一以煤炭消费为主的石油消费大国和第二大能源消费大国。
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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.