CHINA REVS UP SHALES

摘要

At a China Shale Oil symposium held in April, the premier of the State Council, Wen Jiabao, a trained geologist, said China had to "accelerate shale gas (exploration) and development." That acceleration topped the list of objectives in his March 5 speech at the Politburo. And in mid-March, several state agencies—the National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Land and Resources (MLR), and the National Agency of Energy—jointly published the first five-year plan for shale-gas development in China for 2011-2015.