China's energy consumption per 10,000 yuan (about 1,520 U.S. dollars) of gross domestic product dropped 4.01 percent year on year in 2010, said the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) Monday.



China's annual energy consumption totaled 3.25 billion tonnes of standard coal last year, up 5.9 percent from a year earlier, the NBS said in a bulletin.



The country's natural gas consumption jumped 18.2 percent year on year in 2010, while coal, crude oil and electricity consumption increased 5.3 percent, 12.9 percent and 13.1 percent, respectively.