CHINA-OPTIMIZED ENERGY CONSUMPTION STRUCTURE & Israel Palestinians (All Photos)

(190505) — BEIJING, May 5, 2019 (Xinhua) — A kid shows a traditional lantern at a market in Cairo, Egypt, May 3, 2019. (Xinhua/Ahmed Gomaa)

(190505) — WENLING, May 5, 2019 (Xinhua) — Aerial photo taken on May 4, 2019 shows the scenery of Xiaoruo Village in Wenling City, east China’s Zhejiang Province. (Xinhua/Wang Huabin)

(190505) — WENLING, May 5, 2019 (Xinhua) — Aerial photo taken on May 4, 2019 shows the scenery of Xiaoruo Village in Wenling City, east China’s Zhejiang Province. (Xinhua/Wang Huabin)

(190505) — ZUNYI, May 5, 2019 (Xinhua) — A farmer dries fresh dendrobium noble flowers in Pingtan Village in Chishui, southwest China’s Guizhou Province, May 4, 2019. Dendrobium noble is a member of the family Orchidaceae. It is one of herbs used in traditional Chinese medicine, known as Shi Hu. (Xinhua/Wang Changyu)

(190505) — BEIJING, May 5, 2019 (Xinhua) — Photo taken on Dec. 4, 2018 shows new energy vehicles to be sold in the Liudong New Area of Liuzhou, south China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. China saw an optimized energy consumption structure last year with an increase of clean energy, an industry report showed.
Consumption of clean energy, including natural gas, hydropower, nuclear power and wind power, accounted for 22.1 percent of energy consumed last year, up 1.3 percentage points from 2017, China Electric Power Planning & Engineering Institute said in the report released on April 28, 2019.
Coal consumption accounted for 59 percent of the total energy consumption in 2018, down 1.4 percentage points year on year, according to the report.
Total energy consumption reached 4.64 billion tonnes of standard coal, a year-on-year growth of 3.3 percent, the fastest growth since 2014, the report said.
The report also predicted that China’s energy consumption will continue the clean and efficient trend in 2019. (Xinhua/Li Hanchi)

(190505) — BEIJING, May 5, 2019 (Xinhua) — Photo taken on July 12, 2018 shows water discharging from the Three Gorges Dam, a gigantic hydropower project on the Yangtze River, in Yichang City, central China’s Hubei Province. China saw an optimized energy consumption structure last year with an increase of clean energy, an industry report showed.
Consumption of clean energy, including natural gas, hydropower, nuclear power and wind power, accounted for 22.1 percent of energy consumed last year, up 1.3 percentage points from 2017, China Electric Power Planning & Engineering Institute said in the report released on April 28, 2019. Coal consumption accounted for 59 percent of the total energy consumption in 2018, down 1.4 percentage points year on year, according to the report.
Total energy consumption reached 4.64 billion tonnes of standard coal, a year-on-year growth of 3.3 percent, the fastest growth since 2014, the report said.The report also predicted that China’s energy consumption will continue the clean and efficient trend in 2019. (Xinhua/Wen Zhenxiao)

(190505) — TRIPOLI, May 5, 2019 (Xinhua) — A fighter of the forces of the UN-backed Government of National Accord (GNA) is seen in south of Tripoli, Libya, May 4, 2019. A total of 392 people have been killed and 1,936 others injured in the fighting between the UN-backed Libyan government and the east-based army in and around the capital Tripoli, the World Health Organization (WHO) said Thursday. (Xinhua/Amru Salahuddien)

(190505) — TRIPOLI, May 5, 2019 (Xinhua) — Fighters of the forces of the UN-backed Government of National Accord (GNA) transfer equipments from a destroyed tank in south of Tripoli, Libya, May 4, 2019. A total of 392 people have been killed and 1,936 others injured in the fighting between the UN-backed Libyan government and the east-based army in and around the capital Tripoli, the World Health Organization (WHO) said Thursday. (Xinhua/Amru Salahuddien)

Two Palestinian men check the damage of their cloth shop following Israeli Airstrikes destroyed a multi-story building in Gaza City, Sunday, May 5, 2019. Palestinian militants on Saturday fired over 200 rockets into Israel, drawing dozens of retaliatory airstrikes on targets across the Gaza Strip in a round of intense fighting that broke a monthlong lull between the bitter enemies. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)

People look at the damage to a house after it was hit a by a rocket fired from Gaza in the southern Israeli city of Ashkelon, Israel, Sunday, May 5, 2019. An early morning rocket from the Gaza Strip killed an Israeli man Sunday outside a home in the coastal city of Ashkelon, marking the first Israeli casualty from rocket fire since the 2014 war with Hamas militants. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)