Africa currently covers about 3 percent of China’s total energy needs. Coal accounts for more than twothirds of China’s energy consumption, oil for a fifth, while hydropower and gas constitute roughly 6 and 3 percent of energy use, respectively.60 In 2007, China imported 203 million tonnes of oil, which covered about half of China’s oil consumption, i.e. roughly 10 percent of the country’s total energy use.61 Nearly 40 percent of the imports came from the Middle East.