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On 17^th March 2009, in Bat Trang Hanoi, within the framework of Project “Energy saving in industrial sectors” the workshop on “Strengthening the use of  energy saving gas ceramic tunnel in Bat Trang - the experiences and perspectives in 2009” has been organized by Bat Trang People Committee and Bat Trang Ceramic Association. In Bat Trang, there are 41 projects on application of energy saving have been implemented, which assist the enterprises to save annually about 4,000 – 5,000 tons fuels and reduce about 20,000 tons of CO₂. The successful implementation of the project has proved its technical feasibility and economic, finance and environment efficiency, resulting in the possibility to apply widely this technology in trade villages and other areas of the countries.

However, according to the statistics of Bat Trang Commune, at present, in Bat Trang, there are about polluted 150 coal tunnel in operation. The objective of the Commune People Committee is to abolish these coal tunnel and replace them by using energy efficiency ceramic gas tunnel. In 2009, the Bat Trang Commune has a plan to transfer 50 tunnel (from coal to gas tunnel) and the rest will be transferred by 2010, so that basically, in this year, the environment polluted coal tunnel could be abolished.