Your thought of chinese development model and energy problem aren’t correct.

Althogh China and Korea have hostility against Japan, they adopt “government led” Japanese development model and also accept Japnanese technology and social system(except democracy:-( ).You might think that something in the counutries(including Taiwan)is similar with Japan’s when you visited them.

Between Japan and China, what is making a big difference of energy consumption? The answer is “quantity of natural resources” and “Oil Shock”.China has plenty of natural resources and have’nt experienced any “Oil Shock” yet.In other words, China hadn’t need to reduce energy consumption and develop technology to improve fuel effciency until recently .

However,Japanese companise and NGO introduce up-to-date environment technology and know-how to China now. Ofcourse,Tokyo and Bejing boost their activity.