(Yicai Global) April 10 -- Consumption of renewable power in China, the world's biggest energy consumer, may fail to meet a key target next year.

Clean energy use made up 22.2 percent of China's total energy consumption last year, the state-backed China News Service reported today, citing Lin Shanqing, vice administrator of the National Energy Administration.

But the country set out an energy strategy in 2017 that sees renewables accounting for 25 percent of power use by 2020 and 35 percent by 2030. Clean energy consumption rose 7.7 percentage points between 2012 and last year, the report said.

China will continue efforts to develop green energy industries and build a clean, low-carbon, safe and efficient energy system to achieve the goal of energy transition, Lin was reported as telling a sub-forum of the Berlin Energy Transition Dialogue yesterday.

He added that China is willing to join forces with other countries to enhance technologies to create more favorable conditions for a global energy shift.

China is also the world's largest energy producer and has achieved positive results in energy transition, Lin said. It has met challenges in tackling global climate change and ecological protection, developing technologies for energy transition and cutting cost, he added. China also faces issues arising from its energy mix and an imbalance between supply and demand because of the size of its energy industry.

China will step up changes to its energy mix, hike the percentage of clean energy use, innovate technologies to cut the cost of supplying green energy, and develop renewables to overcome these challenges, Lin said.