The Ministry of Ecology and Environment of China issued a report on June 4, Beijing time, saying that China’s carbon emission intensity in 2020 has dropped by 18.8% compared with 2015, exceeding the CCP’s 13th Five-Year Plan’s binding targets, while China’s non-fossil energy accounts for the largest share of energy consumption. The proportion reached 15.9%, all of which exceeded the 2020 target China promised to the international community.
According to sources, in September 2020, China made a commitment to the world to “strive to achieve carbon peaks by 2030 and carbon neutrality by 2060.” In the 14th Five-Year Plan of the Communist Party of China and the 2035 long-term goal outline, the widespread formation of green production and lifestyle, and the steady decline of carbon emissions after peaking have also become important elements.
The concept of green environmental protection emerged in Europe and the United States and has become one of the top “political correctness” in the world today. The green barriers derived from “green environmental protection” once caused the latecomer countries including China to suffer.
However, when China begins to talk about environmental protection, Europe and the United States are quite uncomfortable.
In fact, the so-called environmental issues are not only environmental issues, but also industrial issues. The reason why Europe and the United States vigorously advocate environmental protection, in addition to the problem of global warming, is also to use the first-mover advantage of the environmental protection industry to occupy the upstream of the industrial chain to capture excess profits. However, when China began to talk about environmental issues, in addition to China’s environmental protection itself, it also means that China’s related industries have risen.
In the field of environmental protection, Chinese President Xi Jinping pledged to achieve carbon neutrality by 2060. In the third season of the industrial documentary “The Powerful Power” produced by China’s state-owned China Central Radio and Television Station, the outside world can see China’s solar energy, wind energy, hydropower, controlled nuclear fusion, and traditions from several aspects. The latest achievements in the fossil energy industry. These results show that China’s goal of achieving carbon neutrality by 2060 is very likely.
According to reports, as of the end of 2020, China’s total installed photovoltaic power generation capacity reached 253 million kilowatts, equivalent to 12 Three Gorges power stations, ranking first in the world, more than three times that of the United States, and generating 260.5 billion kilowatt-hours of photovoltaic power in 2020. More importantly, China has explored a way to combine photovoltaic power generation with desert governance. Photovoltaic power plants are built in the desert. While generating electricity, solar panels improve the ecological environment under the panels, making the desert gradually greener. A win-win situation between the environment and the economy has been achieved.
In the field of photovoltaic inverters, China’s exports in 2019 amounted to US$2.759 billion, a year-on-year increase of 49.35%, imports were US$285 million, and the trade surplus was US$2.473 billion. China Sunshine Energy and Huawei ranked top two in the world by far surpassing other companies. In addition, Huawei has a complete set of intelligent operation management systems for solar power plants, which are used in many photovoltaic power plants around the world. Huawei even provides agency operation services. The McKinsey Global Institute in the United States, after comparing the photovoltaic industry of China and the United States, concluded that China “the photovoltaic industry is in an absolute leading position.”
In the field of wind power, the global new installed capacity of wind power in 2020 was 96.7 million kilowatts, an increase of 59% year-on-year. Among them, China added 57.8 million kilowatts, accounting for nearly 60% of the world’s new wind power installed capacity, and the United States added 16.5 million kilowatts.
As of the end of 2020, China’s grid-connected wind power installed capacity reached 281.53 million kilowatts, more than 13 Three Gorges power stations, and accounted for nearly 40% of the global installed wind power capacity of 743 million kilowatts. In the field of wind power industry, General Electric of the United States ranked first in the world with 13.53 million kilowatts of installed capacity in 2020, China Goldwind Sci & Tech ranked second with 13.06 million kilowatts, and six Chinese companies entered the world’s top ten.
In the field of hydropower, China was originally the country with the most abundant hydropower resources in the world, and it is also the country with the largest installed hydropower capacity in the world. The cascade development of the upper reaches of the Yangtze River, Lancang River and other rivers is in full swing.
The official Chinese documentary “Green Pulse” introduced the world’s largest power station under construction, the Baihetan Hydropower Station on the Jinsha River, with an installed capacity of 16 million kilowatts. After completion, it will become China’s second largest power station after the Three Gorges. But the core of the film is not the construction of the power station, but the hydroelectric generator with a single capacity of 1 million kilowatts designed and manufactured by China Dongfang Electric, which is an increase of 300,000 kilowatts compared to the single unit of the Three Gorges Power Station more than 20 years ago, making it the hydro-generator with the largest single-unit capacity in the world today.
Source: dwnews