the State Council held a series of thematic press conferences on "Completing the 14th Five-Year Plan with High Quality". Wang Hongzhi, member of the Party Leadership Group of the National Development and Reform Commission and director of the State Energy Administration, introduced the achievements of high-quality energy development during the 14th Five-Year Plan period. We will refine and sort out the key points of energy in the press conference as follows:
Wang Hongzhi
, director of the National Energy Administration, will complete
the main indicators of total energy production proposed in the Outline of the 14th Five-Year Plan on schedule. Under the strong leadership of the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping as its core and under the guidance of the new strategy of "four revolutions and one cooperation" for energy security, China's energy industry has made breakthroughs and historic achievements, and the main indicators of the comprehensive energy production capacity and the proportion of non-fossil energy proposed in the Outline of the 14th Five-Year Plan will be completed as scheduled. The energy security of more than 1.4 billion people has been effectively guaranteed, green and low-carbon development has attracted worldwide attention, and China has become an important promoter of the world's energy transformation. In the first four years of
the 14th Five-Year Plan, China's energy consumption increment has reached 1.5 times
of the five-year increment of the 13th Five-Year Plan. Wang Hongzhi said that in the first four years of the 14th Five-Year Plan, China's energy consumption increment has reached 1.5 times of the five-year increment of the 13th Five-Year Plan, and it is expected that the new electricity consumption in the five years will exceed the annual electricity consumption of the European Union. We have accelerated the construction of energy production, supply, storage and marketing systems to effectively meet the rapidly growing energy demand. In 2024, China's power generation exceeded 10 trillion kilowatt-hours, accounting for 1/3 of the world's total, and the total energy production was equivalent to about 5 billion tons of standard coal, accounting for more than 1/5 of the world's total, ensuring that the energy supply was "sufficient in quantity and stable in price".
Wang Hongzhi said that in the past five years, the allocation of energy resources has been more optimized, and the energy infrastructure network across the East and west, north and south, and connecting overseas has been more perfect, which has effectively promoted the transformation of resource advantages into development advantages in the central and western regions, and has become a major driving force for the development of the central and western regions. Of the energy used in the eastern region, 40% comes from "energy arteries" such as "West-to-East Power Transmission", "West-to-East Gas Transmission" and "North-to-South Coal Transportation". We will strengthen the supply of electricity, oil and gas for people's livelihood, focus on breaking through difficult blockages, and constantly improve the ability of residents to use energy. Wang Hongzhi,
China's largest electric vehicle charging network
in the world, said that during the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, we built the world's largest electric vehicle charging network, with two charging piles for every five vehicles, making it easier for ordinary people to charge. We actively responded to extreme natural disasters, restored energy supply at the fastest speed, and maintained the "lifeline" of people's livelihood.
Wang Hongzhi said, We have built the largest and fastest growing renewable energy system in the world, and the proportion of renewable energy installed has increased from 40% to about 60%. The annual installed capacity of wind power and photovoltaic power has broken through the 100 million, 200 million and 300 million kilowatts barriers, achieving a step-like leap in development, with unprecedented speed and strength. Energy consumption "green forward", the whole society's electricity consumption, every three degrees of electricity has one degree of green electricity.
Non-fossil energy is expected to exceed the 20% target
set by the 14th Five-Year Plan, and the proportion of non-fossil energy in national energy consumption will increase by 1 percentage point annually, which is expected to exceed the 20% target set by the 14th Five-Year Plan, and the proportion of coal will decrease by 1 percentage point annually. This "one increase and one decrease" has greatly enhanced the "green content" of economic development. China's export of wind power and photovoltaic products has reduced carbon emissions by about 4.1 billion tons for other countries during the 14th Five-Year Plan period, making a significant contribution to the global low-carbon transformation.
New energy and other technology and equipment lead the world
, Wang Hongzhi said that new energy and other technology and equipment lead the world, the number of new energy patents accounts for more than 40% of the world, photovoltaic conversion efficiency, offshore wind power unit capacity and so on constantly refresh the world record, in just a few years. The scale of new energy storage ranks first in the world. Baihetan Hydropower Station, independent third-generation nuclear power "Hualong 1", "Guohe 1", fourth-generation high-temperature gas-cooled reactor and other "the world's largest" and "the world's first" projects have been completed and put into operation, and oil and gas development has broken through the "10,000-meter mark" and advanced into the "kilometer deep sea". These "great powers" have demonstrated the hard core strength of China's scientific and technological innovation. With the vigorous development of new models and new formats, the development of smart micro-grids and virtual power plants has entered the fast lane, the pilot projects of large-scale application of vehicle-network interaction have been accelerated, the integration of energy industry with industry, transportation and other fields has been accelerated, and new tracks in new fields have continued to emerge, which has become an important source of the development of new quality productivity.
Wang Hongzhi said that the construction of the
national unified power market has accelerated the reconstruction of the system, mechanism and policy system, the construction of the national unified power market has accelerated the "acceleration key", coal, electricity and new energy have entered the market in an all-round way, all industrial and commercial users have entered the market, and the "national network" of oil and gas has been preliminarily completed. The energy law was promulgated and implemented, and the energy macro-control and industry governance mechanism were further improved. With the accelerated release of market vitality, the number of registered operators in the electricity market has reached 970000, five times that of 2020. Ten measures have been introduced to promote the development of private energy economy. The vast majority of photovoltaic equipment manufacturing enterprises and more than 60% of wind turbine manufacturing enterprises are private enterprises, and the proportion of private enterprises participating in some nuclear power projects has reached 20%. Private enterprises have become an important force to promote energy transformation. Wang Hongzhi, who
made every effort to promote the construction
of the new energy system in the 15th Five-Year Plan, said that since the 14th Five-Year Plan, facing the complex and changing international and domestic energy situation, we have firmly grasped the energy rice bowl, stepped out of the Chinese road of high-quality energy development, and provided China's plan for the world's energy transformation. In the next step, we will adhere to the guidance of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, make every effort to promote the construction of a new energy system in the 15th Five-Year Plan, accelerate the construction of an energy power, and provide strong energy support for the promotion of Chinese-style modernization.