The Inner Mongolia government has made up its mind to advance a new energy saving campaign after the region failed to achieve its target of reducing per unit GDP energy consumption by 5.26 percent in 2007.

    Ya Saning, director of the Economic Committee of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region said in an interview that in order to realize the target of reducing per capita energy consumption by five percent in 2008, the government recently issued a series of new measures to strengthen efforts to limit production on the heavy-energy consuming industries such as calcium carbide and ferroalloy, lift electricity fees on these industries by 0.07 yuan per kilowatt hour, encourage them to expand industry chains, enhance high-value added levels and pay extra subsidies to those suffering great from eliminating outdated capacity.

    He didn't rule out a possibility of having local producers of calcium carbide and ferroalloy closed up by the end of the third quarter of this year if necessary and finally driving them out of the region.