Agence France-Presse: China cut its average energy consumption by 3.53 percent in the first half of 2009 from a year ago, helped by massive stimulus spending on green projects, the government said Sunday. The figure compared with a decline of 2.89 percent in the first quarter of the year, the National Development and Reform Commission said in a statement on its website. At the end of 2008, China unveiled a four-trillion-yuan (580-billion-dollar) fiscal package aimed at mitigating the impact of the …