Coal utilization by gradation and quality is a crucial approach to achieving clean and efficient use of coal and promoting China’s energy production revolution.

In recent years, severe outbreaks of haze weather have frequently occurred in China’s heating season, which has become a general public concern.

During the 12th Five-Year Plan period, China’s outbound direct investment developed rapidly, making China a net exporter of capital.

Since the turn of the new century, there have been a series of new changes in the logistics clusters and industrial clusters in Europe.

It is revealed through the “Questionnaire Survey on China’s Business Operators 2015” that against the backdrop of the slowdown of economic growth, business operators had made a number of achievements through innovation projects.

Since reform and opening-up, China’s energy industry has made several structural reforms like lifting price control on coal, separation of power production from power transmission, and regrouping of three major oil and gas companies.

Key words: macro-economy, business operation, prospects for the future...

Due to factors including surging oil price and US regulation on inter-state natural gas marketing price in 1970s, natural gas shortage occurred in US.