HANGZHOU: An international project has helped cut 1.1 million tons of carbon dioxide emissions in China annually by encouraging township and village enterprises (TVEs) to adopt energy efficient technologies.

These "green" TVEs are mostly in the cement, brick, coking and metal casting sectors, which are estimated to be responsible for one-sixth of China's total carbon emissions, said the project's initiators with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Ministry of Agriculture.

The achievement was announced yesterday at an international forum on rural energy efficiency held in Hangzhou, East China's Zhejiang Province.