The future is coal-based: half of Asia's primary energy consumption, and 70% of China's, is coal.

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Bioenergy is also a crucial element in the country's energy sector, supplying almost 20% of total primary energy consumption.

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Meantime Hanson will hunt for more growth in overseas markets--now 40% of sales--where coal accounts for 22% of primary energy consumption.

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The estimates of total primary energy consumption are those of the EIA. For GDP figures, the EIA used data from Global Insight.

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