BEIJING - China is expected to achieve its target of a 20-percent cut in energy use per unit of gross domestic product (GDP) in the five years to 2010 as planned, Li Yizhong, minister of industry and information technology, said on Friday.

With efforts in the fourth quarter, the energy efficiency goal for 11th Five-Year Plan (2006-2010) would be met, Li said.

Li also forecast energy consumption per unit of industrial value-added output would decline 6 percent this year from a year ago.