The State Council Information Office held a series of theme press conferences on the 26th on the "High-quality Completion of the "14th Five-Year Plan". Wang Hongzhi, member of the Party Leadership Group of the National Development and Reform Commission and Director of the National Energy Administration, introduced the achievements of high-quality energy development in the "14th Five-Year Plan" period and answered reporters' questions.

1 kilowatt-hour of every 3 kWh of electricity

my country has built the world's largest and fastest-growing renewable energy system

The 14th Five-Year Plan is the five years of the fastest transformation of green and low-carbon. my country has built the world's largest and fastest-growing renewable energy system, and the proportion of renewable energy power generation installed capacity has increased from 40% to about 60%.

Wang Hongzhi, member of the Party Leadership Group of the National Development and Reform Commission and Director of the National Energy Administration: Energy consumption is "moving forward with green". Among the electricity consumption of the whole society, 1 kilowatt-hour of green electricity is 1 kilowatt-hour of every 3 kilowatt-hour of electricity. Among national energy consumption, the proportion of non-fossil energy increases by 1 percentage point every year, and is expected to exceed the 20% target set in the "14th Five-Year Plan" and the proportion of coal decreases by 1 percentage point every year. This "one increase and one decrease" has greatly increased the "green content" of economic development. During the 14th Five-Year Plan period, my country's export of wind power photovoltaic products has reduced carbon emissions by about 4.1 billion tons for other countries, making a significant contribution to the global low-carbon transformation.

There are 2 charging piles for every 5 electric vehicles

my country has built the world's largest electric vehicle charging network

Relevant person in charge of the National Energy Administration said that the "14th Five-Year Plan" is a five-year period of more energy supply and stronger resilience. In the first four years of the 14th Five-Year Plan, my country's energy consumption growth has reached 1.5 times the increase in the 13th Five-Year Plan period, and it is expected that the additional electricity consumption in the five years will exceed the annual electricity consumption of the EU.

In the past five years, the allocation of energy resources has been further optimized and the energy infrastructure network has been more perfect. 40% of the energy consumption in the eastern region comes from "energy arteries" such as "west-to-east power transmission", "west-east gas transmission", and "north-to-south coal transportation". During the 14th Five-Year Plan period, my country also built the world's largest electric vehicle charging network, with 2 charging piles for every 5 electric vehicles.

The number of new energy patents accounts for more than 40% of the world

my country's new energy storage scale has jumped to the world

Relevant person in charge of the National Energy Administration said that the "14th Five-Year Plan" is five years for greater breakthroughs in energy science and technology innovation.

New energy and other technical equipment lead the world, with new energy patents accounting for more than 40% of the world's total, and photovoltaic conversion efficiency and offshore wind power single-machine capacity continue to break world records. In just a few years, the scale of new energy storage has jumped to the world's first.

Baihetan Hydropower Station, independent third-generation nuclear power "Hualong No. 1" and "Guohe No. 1" and the fourth-generation high-temperature gas-cooled reactor have been completed and put into operation. Oil and gas development has broken through the deep "10,000-meter mark" and advanced into the "1,000-meter deep sea". These "heavy weapons of major powers demonstrate my country's hard-core strength of scientific and technological innovation.

The world-leading scale

The number of charging infrastructure in my country reached 16.696 million

Relevant person in charge of the National Energy Administration introduced that as of the end of July, the number of charging infrastructure in my country reached 16.696 million, 10 times that of the end of the 13th Five-Year Plan, and the world-leading scale.

At the same time, we actively encourage "drive green cars and use green electricity", and provide green electricity services to new energy vehicle owners through green certificates and green electricity transactions, organize relevant provinces to carry out pilot projects for interactive vehicle-network applications, and electric vehicles become "mobile power banks" to support electricity use "peak cutting and filling valleys". Currently, more than half of the new energy vehicles in the world are driving in China, and the green and low-carbon travel concepts and energy consumption methods have become deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.

Ranked first in the world

In 2024, my country's hydrogen energy production and consumption scale exceeded 36 million tons

During the 14th Five-Year Plan period, my country coordinated the development of emerging industries such as new energy storage and hydrogen energy, and promoted the continuous optimization of the industrial innovation ecology and development environment.

As of the first half of this year, the installed capacity of my country's new energy storage is about 95 million kilowatts, an increase of nearly 30 times in five years, which is equivalent to equipping the new power system with a "giant power bank". In 2024, my country's hydrogen energy production and consumption scale exceeded 36 million tons, ranking first in the world, of which the production capacity of renewable energy hydrogen production exceeds half of the world.

At the same time, artificial intelligence has also deeply empowered the energy field and has become the "new engine" of the energy technology revolution. It has continuously expanded application scenarios in the fields of new energy power generation, power grid inspection operations, and new oil and gas resource discovery, showing huge potential, allowing the energy industry to continue to rejuvenate "new vitality" with the support of AI.