The Administrative Management Mode of Energy Statistics in China:
As regards the government statistical system, the organization structure of energy statistics is same as that of other economic statistics and the decentralized management is adopted in the administration, while the professional work of statistics is under the leadership of major agency of central government in charge of statistics, namely the National Bureau of Statistics of China (NBS). Within the internal departments of government statistical agencies at various levels, the statistics on product output, international trade, circulation, price, consumption and comprehensive balance of energy are scattered over different function agencies respectively in line with their responsibility division.

The Energy Statistics Agency within Government Statistical Departments and Function:
There establishes a Division of Energy Statistics within the Department of Industry and Transport Statistics (DITS) of NBS, which is responsible for consumption statistics of energy, compilation of the Chinese balance sheet of energy, energy economic analysis, forecast of energy supply and demand, international cooperation and information exchange of energy statistics. The rest of energy statistics is left to the other departments of NBS. For example, the Division of Industrial Economic Operation of DITS takes charge of production and stock statistics of energy in industrial enterprises, the Department of Trade and External Economic Relations Statistics is responsible for the wholesale and retail statistics of energy and the Department of Urban Survey is for the production price statistics of energy, etc. It needs to explain here that the energy statistics work belonging to the professional range of other governmental departments is the responsibility of these departments. So you will have a better understanding of these aspects in my following introduction to the Chinese energy information and data collection.

There set up special full time posts of energy statistics within the local government statistics agencies at various levels and their internal responsibility division and function are basically same with those of NBS.