China reported reductions in energy consumption as well as chemical oxygen demand (COD) and total sulfur dioxide emission last year, Premier Wen Jiabao said at the annual parliament session on Wednesday.

In 2007, China saw a 3.27 percent year-on-year drop in energy consumption for each unit of GDP, Wen said in his report to the First Session of the 11th National People's Congress.

For the first time in recent years, China reported a reduction in both chemical oxygen demand and the total emission of sulfur dioxide, by 3.14 percent and 4.66 percent respectively from the previous year, he said.

(Xinhua News Agency March 5, 2008)