BEIJING: China continues to optimise the energy consumption structure, and promote green and low-carbon development to a new height, said a senior official in Beijing on Thursday.
China Central Television (CCTV) quoted Zhang Jianhua, Director of the National Energy Administration, as saying that China has achieved significant advancements in energy security and stable supply levels since the 18th Communist Party of China (CPC) National Congress in 2012. Additionally, the country has been consistently refining its energy consumption structure during this period.
From 2013 to 2023, the total production of primary energy rose 35 percent. The installed wind power generation capacity increased by nearly five times, and the installed photovoltaic power generation capacity increased by over 30 times, said Zhang.
The official also said that China has established the world’s largest charging infrastructure system. Over the course of 10 years, the proportion of coal consumption has dropped by 12.1 percentage points,
while the proportion of consumption in non-fossil fuel sources such as wind power, solar power, hydropower, and nuclear power has increased by 7.7 percentage points. As a result, the “green content” of economic development has significantly improved.
So far, China is one of the world’s advanced countries in terms of energy technology modernisation.
In the future, the country will coordinate energy security and low-carbon transformation, reduce the consumption of fossil fuel energy, and continuously promote the transformation and upgrading of energy utilisation.
Meanwhile, China is intensifying its efforts in the development of non-fossil energy, while coordinating the advancement of nuclear power, hydropower, and new energy development and utilisation, aiming to promote high-quality development of energy.
“By 2025, approximately 12 million charging facilities will be established nationwide. Efforts will be made to increase the electrification level of end-use energy to around 30 percent by 2025. We will c
ontinue to expand the scale of green electricity consumption and increase the proportion of non-fossil energy consumption by one percentage point every year,” said Zhang.
Source: Emirates News Agency