『Abstract
　Energy policy plays a critical role not only in the energy development, but also in the social and environmental aspects of a nation. Five-Year Plan for National Economic and Social Development is one of the most important government plans, which documents the national strategy during that period. This study presents a critical review of 12 Five-Year Plans that have been released by the Chinese central government in last 58 years. In particular, the recently released Twelfth Five-Year Plan is reviewed. The results clearly show a pattern of increasingly level of attention of Chinese government to energy efficiency improvement, air pollutant emission reduction, new and renewable energy development, carbon dioxide emission and climate change.

Keywords: Energy policy; Five-Year Plan; China』

1. Introduction
2. Research methodology
3. Energy component on the “Five-Year Plans”
　3.1. Difference of the planned development goal and the actual production
　3.2. Transition from energy exporting to energy importing strategy
　3.3. More focus on energy efficiency
　3.4. Concern on air pollutant emission reduction
　3.5. More focus on new and renewable energy
　3.6. Concern on CO2 emission and climate change
　3.7. Room for improvements in the newly released Five-Tear Plan
4. Conclusions
Acknowledgements
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