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reserves of oil and natural gas are limited, and, judging from the speed of present consumption, can only last for
last for a few more
decades. Hydro-electric power generation cannot be expected to
increase substantially, and the development of new sources of
energy is still in an experimental stage and of a very small scale. It will take several decades before they can be put to
practical application. In the near future, coal and nuclear
power are the largest exploitable energy sources, and coal
production will be limited by such restrictions as the
exploitable reserve, mining technology, transportation capacity,
environmental protection. Therefore, the use of nuclear
power generation has become the world trend for energy development. The position and function of nuclear energy will
become more and more important in the world's energy structure.
This historical trend of energy development will not change even
after the Three Mile Island accident in the USA and the Chernobyl
accident in the Soviet Union. Just as the Director General of
the International Atomic Energy Agency pointed out at a recent symposium to diagnose the accident at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Station, the world has reached the point of no return in the
development of nuclear energy.
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A huge
huge amount of energy resources will be needed for
our country's four modernization programme. The question of
energy resources is a priority issue which will affect the progress of the four modernization to a great extent. As we all
know, even though our country has rich reserves of energy
resources, their geographical distribution is rather uneven.
Close to 80% of the nation's known coal reserves are in the
north; northern China has 60% but the eight provinces in southern
China has only 28. 70% of hydro-electric power sources are
spread out in the south-west. Eastern China, north-eastern China
and central-south China together have only 15% of the country's
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