<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/44c56643-f52f-4081-b8bc-8b998eb0284e/A7C36454-551E-4D93-BD5E-97DC257DE67A/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jun/09/china-green-energy-solar-wind" href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jun/09/china-green-energy-solar-wind" style="font-size: 11px;">www.guardian.co.uk</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jun/09/china-green-energy-solar-wind"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.guardian.co.uk/img/9EA2664F-F6A8-4066-892B-B820080575E5" alt="Windfarm in China" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jun/09/china-green-energy-solar-wind"><P><STRONG></STRONG><A href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/china">China</A> is planning a vast increase in its use of wind and <A href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/solarpower">solar power</A> over the next ­decade and believes it can match Europe by 2020, producing a fifth of its <A href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/energy">energy</A> needs from renewable sources, a senior Chinese official said yesterday.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jun/09/china-green-energy-solar-wind"><P>Zhang Xiaoqiang, vice-chairman of China's national development and reform commission, told the Guardian that Beijing <A href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/may/26/china-invests-solar-power-renewable-energy-environment">would easily surpass current 2020 targets for the use of wind and solar power </A>and was now contemplating targets that were more than three times higher.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jun/09/china-green-energy-solar-wind"><P>In the current development plan, the goal for wind energy is 30 gigawatts. Zhang said the new goal could be 100GW by 2020.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jun/09/china-green-energy-solar-wind">Personally I think we could reach the target of having renewables provide 20% of total energy consumption."</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jun/09/china-green-energy-solar-wind">That matches the European goal, and would represent a direct challenge to Europe's claims to world leadership in the field, despite China's relative poverty. 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