China’s sky is bluer, its mountains are greener, and its water is greener. It is like the air that one “uses every day but does not know”, but it has changed over the past few years. During this period, it has experienced unimaginable difficulties and challenges, and commendable sacrifices and persistence. It is a great epic written by the Chinese and the whole world and happening vividly in reality. The data in the ten pictures below is a microcosm of this epic.
Forests are the most important "carbon pool" of terrestrial ecosystems. In the past ten years, China has completed a total of 960 million acres of afforestation, contributing a quarter of the world's new forest area and becoming the country with the fastest growing forest resources in the world. It has played a significant role in greening and sequestering carbon and mitigating global climate warming. effect.
In 2023, China’s newly installed photovoltaic capacity will reach 216 GW, accounting for 51% of the global total. As photovoltaics become "cabbage-priced", other developing countries will be able to more easily adopt this clean energy technology, thereby promoting a global clean energy transition.
In 2023, China’s new onshore wind power installed capacity will account for 66% of the global total, and new offshore wind power capacity will account for 65% of the global total. Each wind turbine is like a silent guardian of the earth. They stand on the mountain tops and coasts, converting the power of nature into clean energy day and night.
In 2023, China’s new energy vehicle sales will be 9.49 million units, accounting for 64% of the global total. As the world's largest automobile market, China is using practical actions to write the future of green transportation.
In 2023, China's clean energy consumption proportion will reach 26.4%, an increase of 10.9% in the past ten years, and the proportion of coal consumption has dropped by 12.1% cumulatively. From wind power and photovoltaics to nuclear power and hydrogen energy, clean energy continues to grow in China's energy structure; at the same time, China continues to assume the role of the "world's factory", which is not easy.
In 2023, China's export of wind power and photovoltaic products will help other countries reduce carbon dioxide emissions by approximately 810 million tons, equivalent to the emissions of Germany. African children living in thatched houses rely on a few Chinese photovoltaic panels to read and study with lights on at night.
As of the end of 2023, China's cumulative installed capacity of wind power and photovoltaic power generation has reached 441 million kilowatts and 609 million kilowatts respectively, an increase of 10 times in ten years. Wind turbines are arranged in groups on the northern grasslands, and photovoltaic panels are spread like a sea in the western Gobi Desert.
In the past ten years, pollutant emissions from China’s power industry have been reduced by more than 90%. We can proudly say that China's coal-fired power plants are the cleanest in the world.
Over the past 20 years, the U.S. share of global solar module shipments has dropped from 13% to 1%, and China has increased from almost zero to nearly 85% today.
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