China to cut energy intensity 3 percent in '07: planner

BEIJING (Reuters) - Energy used in China to generate each dollar of national income in 2007 will be 3 percent lower than a year earlier, an official with the economic planning agency said on Thursday.

Guo Lanfeng, vice head of the national economy department of the National Development and Reform Commission, said the drop in energy intensity compared with a 1.33 percent fall in 2006.

(Reporting by Eadie Chen; Editing by Anne Marie Roantree)