China’s Five Year Plans for environmental protection (cont.) For the first time an official target to reduce NOx emissions and ammonia nitrogen discharge, both by 10%, as well as a target to reduce C02 intensity, by 17%, have been included. Reflecting the government’s concerns for regional equity and disparities in development and industrial and energy structures, carbon intensity targets vary across provinces, ranging from a 10% reduction for the poorer western provinces of Qinghai and Tibet up to a 19.5% reduction for the wealthier coastal province of Guangdong.