China to promote low carbon transport: vice premier

BEIJING, Jan. 15 (Xinhua) -- Chinese Vice Premier Zhang Dejiang said Friday that China would actively promote low carbon transport and build a resource-conserving and environmental friendly transportation system.

The transportation authorities should issue emission standards and make sure the standarnds were implemented, Zhang said at a national meeting on transportation.

Energy-saving transport facilities should be widely used, he said.

He said the government would continue to beef up efforts on transportation infrastructure construction and transport safety in 2010.