The State Council Information Office held a press conference on the development of renewable energy in China

Fellow journalists, good morning. Welcome to the press conference of the Information Office of the State Council. Today, we have invited Mr. Zhang Jianhua, Director of the National Energy Administration, to introduce you to the development of renewable energy in China and answer your questions. Also present at today's press conference were Mr. Li Chuangjun, Director General of the New and Renewable Energy Department of the National Energy Administration, Mr. Li Fulong, Director of the Development Planning Department and Spokesperson, and Mr. Huang Xuenong, Director of the Electric Power Department.

First of all, I would like to give the floor to Mr. Zhang Jianhua for a briefing.

Ladies and gentlemen, friends from the media, hello everyone!

It is a great pleasure to meet you and introduce China's renewable energy development achievements. First of all, on behalf of the National Energy Administration, I would like to express my heartfelt thanks to all journalists and friends for their long-term concern and support for China's energy industry!

Renewable energy is a green and low-carbon energy source, an important part of China's multi-wheel drive energy supply system, which is of great significance for improving the energy structure, protecting the ecological environment, responding to climate change, and achieving sustainable economic and social development.

Since the founding of the People's Republic of China, under the great attention of the CPC Central Committee and the State Council, and under the strong promotion of the Renewable Energy Law, China's renewable energy industry has gone through an extraordinary development process from scratch, from small to large, and from large to strong. In recent years, especially since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, under the strong leadership of the CPC Central Committee, the national energy industry has thoroughly implemented Xi Jinping Thought on Ecological Civilization and the new energy security strategy of "Four Revolutions and One Cooperation", made concerted efforts to overcome difficulties, and vigorously promoted the leapfrog development of renewable energy, and made great achievements that have attracted worldwide attention.

1. The scale of development and utilization ranks first in the world, providing strong support for the green and low-carbon transformation of energy. By the end of 2020, the total installed capacity of renewable energy in China reached 930 million kilowatts, accounting for 42.4% of the total installed capacity, an increase of 14.6 percentage points over 2012. Among them: 370 million kilowatts of hydropower, 280 million kilowatts of wind power, 250 million kilowatts of photovoltaic power generation, and 29.52 million kilowatts of biomass power generation, ranking first in the world for 16 consecutive years, 11 years, 6 years and 3 years respectively. In 2020, China's renewable energy power generation reached 2.2 trillion kWh, accounting for 29.5% of the total electricity consumption of the whole society, an increase of 9.5 percentage points over 2012, strongly supporting China's non-fossil energy to account for 15.9% of primary energy consumption, and to achieve the solemn commitment of non-fossil energy consumption to reach 15% in 2020 as scheduled. About 40% of our installed capacity is now renewable energy, and about 30% of our electricity generation is renewable energy, and all renewable energy installed capacity is the largest in the world.

Second, the level of technology and equipment has been greatly improved, injecting surging momentum into the development of renewable energy. China has formed a relatively complete renewable energy technology industrial system. In the field of hydropower, it has the world's largest independent design and manufacturing capacity of million-kilowatt hydro turbines, and the design and construction capacity of extra-high dams and large underground caverns are at the world's leading level. Low-speed wind power technology ranks among the top in the world, with more than 90% of domestic wind power installed using domestic wind turbines, and 10 MW offshore wind turbines starting trial operation. The rapid iteration of photovoltaic power generation technology has refreshed the world record of cell conversion efficiency for many times, and the photovoltaic industry occupies a dominant position in the world.Photovoltaic modulesAmong the top 10 enterprises in the world, China occupies 7. In the past 10 years, the average cost per kilowatt of onshore wind power and photovoltaic power generation projects has decreased by about 30% and 75% respectively, and the industrial competitiveness has continued to improve, injecting strong impetus into the vigorous development of new models and new forms of renewable energy.

3. Remarkable results have been achieved in reducing pollution and carbon emissions, laying a solid foundation for the construction of ecological civilization. Renewable energy emits neither pollutants nor greenhouse gases, and is a natural green energy source. In 2020, the scale of renewable energy development and utilization in China reached 680 million tons of standard coal, equivalent to replacing nearly 1 billion tons of coal, and reducing carbon dioxide, sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide emissions by about 1.79 billion tons, 864,000 tons and 798,000 tons respectively, providing a strong guarantee for the fight against air pollution. At the same time, China actively promotes the clean utilization of biomass energy such as urban and rural organic waste, and promotes the improvement of the living environment; Actively explore the photovoltaic desertification control model that combines desert control, photovoltaic power generation, and planting and breeding, promote the combination of photovoltaic development and ecological restoration, and realize the coordinated development and complementarity of renewable energy development and ecological civilization construction.

Fourth, the results of benefiting the people and benefiting the people have been fruitful, and green power has been contributed to the decisive battle against poverty. While promoting the extension of power grids in areas without electricity, China has actively implemented independent power supply projects for renewable energy, allowing millions of people without electricity to use green electricity, and successfully solving the problem of electricity consumption for people without electricity. Since 2012, a total of 31 large-scale hydropower stations with a total capacity of 64.78 million kilowatts have been built in poverty-stricken areas, contributing to local economic development and poverty alleviation and prosperity of migrants. Innovative implementation of photovoltaic poverty alleviation projects, a total of 26.36 million kilowatts of photovoltaic poverty alleviation power stations have been built, benefiting nearly 60,000 poor villages, 4.15 million poor households, generating 18 billion yuan of power generation income every year, and placing 1.25 million public welfare posts.

Fifth, international cooperation continues to expand, and China will make China's contribution to jointly addressing climate change. As the world's largest renewable energy market and equipment manufacturer, China continues to deepen international cooperation in the field of renewable energy. The hydropower business covers many countries and regions around the world, and the photovoltaic industry supplies more than 70% of the modules to the global market. The wide application of renewable energy in the Chinese market has effectively promoted and accelerated the reduction of renewable energy costs, further promoted the development and utilization of renewable energy in countries around the world, and accelerated the process of global green energy transformation. At the same time, in recent years, China's investment in renewable energy projects in countries and regions along the Belt and Road has shown a continuous growth trend, actively helping underdeveloped countries and regions to promote the application of advanced green energy technologies, and contributing China's wisdom and strength to the high-quality green Belt and Road cooperation.

Ladies and gentlemen, friends of the media,

Recently, General Secretary Xi Jinping made a series of important speeches, clearly proposing that China's carbon dioxide emissions will strive to peak before 2030, strive to achieve carbon neutrality before 2060, and by 2030, non-fossil energy will account for about 25% of primary energy consumption, and the total installed capacity of wind power and solar power generation will reach more than 1.2 billion kilowatts, further pointing out the strategic direction of China's energy transformation and reform, and setting a new beacon for China's renewable energy development. In the next step, the National Energy Administration will accelerate the implementation of the carbon peak action in the energy sector, formulate more active new energy development goals, vigorously promote the large-scale, high-proportion, high-quality and market-oriented development of renewable energy in the new era, accelerate the implementation of renewable energy substitution actions, focus on improving the consumption and storage capacity of new energy, actively build a new power system with new energy as the main body, and improve the institutional mechanism and policy system conducive to the joint development and utilization of renewable energy by the whole society. We will vigorously promote the growth of renewable energy from a new force in the green and low-carbon transformation of energy to the main force of carbon peak and carbon neutrality, and provide a strong guarantee for building a clean, low-carbon, safe and efficient energy system.

Now, my colleagues and I are more than happy to answer your questions.

You can now raise your hand and ask questions.

The carbon neutrality goal will promote the large-scale development and utilization of renewable energy, with the continuous growth of renewable energy installed capacity and power generation, how to avoid curtailment of wind and solar power has attracted much attention, how will the National Energy Administration ensure the power consumption mechanism? Thank you.

Comrade Huang Xuenong, Director of the Electric Power Department, is invited to answer.

Your question is very good, under the strategy of carbon peak and carbon neutrality, renewable energy is vigorously developed. On the one hand, we cannot vigorously develop it, and on the other hand, there is a large number of wind and solar abandonment. In the past few years, due to the mismatch between the development of new energy and the absorption capacity of the power system, there has indeed been a more prominent problem of curtailment of wind and solar energy. Since 2018, the National Energy Administration has formulated a "three-year action plan for clean energy consumption", and from 2018 to 2020, wind and solar curtailment have improved year by year, and the utilization rate of wind power and photovoltaic has increased significantly, reaching 97% and photovoltaic utilization rate by 2020. We looked at countries around the world, and this level is the best in the world.

In the next step, in order to achieve the strategic goal of carbon peak and carbon neutrality, we must promote new energy to become the main body of power supply, so we must build a new power system and take multiple measures to ensure the high-level consumption and utilization of new energy.

First, we should optimize the layout of new energy development as a whole. On the premise of meeting the needs of carbon peak and carbon neutrality, combined with the new energy resource conditions of various regions, including land and other construction conditions, especially make full use of the relatively large space for grid-connected consumption of new energy in the central and eastern regions, and actively promote the local development and utilization of new energy. In the western region, the northern region, and the areas rich in new energy resources, we must scientifically plan and lay out a number of power supply bases and power transmission channels based on new energy, so as to realize the overall optimal allocation of new energy power.

Second, we must vigorously improve the flexible adjustment capacity of the power system. In the past, our power generation facilities were adjusting power generation with the needs of users, and power generation, transmission, and electricity consumption were completed at the same time. The situation has changed after the large-scale new energy grid connection, the new energy has a certain dependence on the characteristics of the sky, and the user's electricity needs to be reliably guaranteed, how to integrate and connect the two aspects, which requires the construction of a new power system to provide flexible adjustment capabilities to make the new energy better consumption. On the power generation side, we will strengthen the flexibility transformation of thermal power, including promoting the construction of pumped storage power stations and natural gas peaking power stations. On the power grid side, we should increase infrastructure construction and improve the ability to optimize the allocation of resources, especially to give full play to the role of mutual assistance in the resources of the large power grid. On the user side, we will promote the substitution of terminal electric energy, especially green electric energy, and improve the responsiveness of the demand side. In addition, accelerate the large-scale development of energy storage, promote the comprehensive digitalization of the power system, and build an efficient and intelligent dispatching and operation system. For example, electric vehicles, our power system needs to charge it, which seems to be a power supply task, but through the development of technology, including taking economic measures, electric vehicles can be allowed to promote the improvement of our system capabilities. When the electric car is at a low point, the system recharges it; At peak power consumption, let the electric car discharge our system. An electric car can become an energy storage device for the power system, and if there are thousands of large-scale electric vehicles, it is a very beneficial factor for our system. Therefore, we should accelerate the construction of charging and swapping infrastructure, on the one hand, to promote the development of new energy vehicles, on the other hand, to promote the construction of new power systems, which is a very good thing.

Third, it is necessary to build a long-term mechanism for the consumption of new energy. A brief introduction to three considerations. First, on the basis of the power grid to ensure consumption, through the integration of source, grid, load and storage, multi-energy complementarity, etc., to realize the power supply, power grid, users, energy storage and other market entities to jointly bear the responsibility of clean energy consumption. The second is to coordinate the resources of the load side, the power supply side and the power grid side, improve the new energy dispatching mechanism, improve the regulation capacity of the power system in multiple dimensions, and ensure that the regulation capacity matches the scale of new energy development and utilization. Third, it is necessary to scientifically formulate the target of reasonable utilization of new energy. To form a dynamic adjustment mechanism conducive to the development of new energy and the overall optimization of the new power system, the wind and solar resources in each place are different, the load situation is different, and the system power grid structure is different. That's all I have to say, thank you.

The 14th Five-Year Plan and the Long-Range Objectives Through 2035 both set out clear requirements for accelerating renewable energy, and what new features do you think China's renewable energy development pattern will take on in the future? Thank you.

Li Chuangjun, Director of the New Energy Department, is invited to answer.

Thank you for your question, recently General Secretary Xi Jinping clearly put forward China's carbon peak before 2030 and carbon neutrality before 2060, put forward clear requirements for the development of renewable energy, and the "14th Five-Year Plan" and the outline of the long-term goals for 2035 just adopted by the two sessions also put forward clear tasks for the development of renewable energy. Overall, during the 14th Five-Year Plan period, renewable energy development will face new situations and new tasks, and a series of major changes will take place in the boundary conditions, development logic and development mechanism of renewable energy development. Overall, the development of renewable energy in the 14th Five-Year Plan period will enter a new stage, which presents the following characteristics:

First, large-scale development. On the basis of the "13th Five-Year Plan", the average annual installed capacity of renewable energy during the "14th Five-Year Plan" period will be greatly increased, and the installed capacity will be further expanded, and by the end of the "14th Five-Year Plan", the proportion of renewable energy power generation capacity in China's total installed power capacity will exceed 50%.

The second is a high proportion of development. By the end of the 14th Five-Year Plan, it is expected that renewable energy will account for about two-thirds of the increase in electricity consumption in the whole society, and more than 50% in the increase in primary energy consumption.

The third is market-oriented development. The decisive role of the market in the allocation of renewable energy resources will be further played, and the development of wind power and photovoltaic will enter the stage of parity from this year, get rid of the dependence on financial subsidies, and achieve market-oriented and competitive development.

Fourth, high-quality development. The "14th Five-Year Plan" will accelerate the construction of a new power system with new energy as the main body to improve the capacity of new energy consumption and storage, not only to achieve large-scale development of renewable energy, but also to achieve a high level of consumption and utilization, more effectively ensure the reliable and stable supply of electricity, and achieve high-quality leapfrog development.

Looking forward to the future, we will anchor the goal of carbon peak and carbon neutrality, make full use of China's renewable energy resource advantages and technological advantages, forge long boards and make up for shortcomings, consolidate and enhance the overall core competitiveness and competitive advantages of renewable energy, adhere to the priority development of renewable energy, vigorously develop unswervingly, take high-quality leapfrog development as the theme, improve quality and efficiency as the main line, take reform and innovation as the driving force, optimize development through regional layout, support development through major bases, lead development through demonstration projects, and implement development through action plans. Accelerate the implementation of renewable energy substitution projects, promote the development of renewable energy with a high proportion, high quality, low cost, and market-oriented energy, and make greater contributions to ensuring energy supply, promoting green and low-carbon energy development, and achieving the dual carbon goals. Thank you.

The "14th Five-Year Plan" is a critical period and window period for carbon peaking, what measures does the National Energy Administration plan to take to promote the steady realization of carbon peaking? Thank you.

On March 15, General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized at the ninth meeting of the Central Financial and Economic Commission that achieving carbon peak and carbon neutrality is a broad and profound economic and social systemic change, and it is necessary to incorporate carbon peak and carbon neutrality into the overall layout of ecological civilization construction, and take out the momentum to achieve the goal of carbon peak in 2030 and carbon neutrality in 2060 as scheduled. There are still two five years left before carbon peaking in 2030, a total of ten years. The 14th Five-Year Plan is the first five-year period, and it is also a critical period for low-carbon energy transition. We will focus on the following three aspects of measures to accelerate the work of carbon peaking.

The first is to vigorously develop non-fossil energy. By 2030, the primary energy consumption ratio of non-fossil energy will reach about 25%, and the total installed capacity of wind power and solar energy will reach more than 1.2 billion kilowatts. We will set more aggressive targets for the development of new energy and accelerate the development of wind and solar power generation. At the same time, it is necessary to develop hydropower in accordance with local conditions, actively and orderly develop nuclear power under the premise of ensuring safety, and at the same time accelerate the construction of regulated power sources such as pumped storage and new energy storage, enhance the flexible adjustment capacity of the power system, and vigorously improve the level of new energy consumption. The issue of new energy consumption has just been talked about by Director Huang Xuenong, and this pressure is also very great.

The second is to vigorously promote the green energy consumption model. To achieve carbon peak and carbon neutrality, it is necessary to be guided by the comprehensive green transformation of economic and social development, and it is very important to implement green energy consumption models in key areas and even the whole society. We will adopt stricter energy consumption standards and support the promotion of non-fossil energy substitution and energy use changes in key industries and fields such as industry, buildings, and transportation. Promote the acceleration of the development of new energy vehicles, building photovoltaic integration and other green energy consumption models, but also accelerate the replacement of electric energy in heating, cooking and other aspects, and improve the level of electrification of the whole society. By 2025, we will achieve the goal of reducing energy consumption per unit of GDP by 13.5% compared with 2020 and carbon dioxide emissions per unit of GDP by 18% compared with 2020. These two goals are already reflected in the 14th Five-Year Plan.

Third, it is necessary to formulate and implement more effective policies and measures. In accordance with the unified deployment of the CPC Central Committee and the State Council, we have thoroughly implemented the spirit of the ninth meeting of the Central Financial and Economic Commission, and the National Energy Administration is studying the path and task measures to promote the realization of carbon peak and carbon neutrality in the energy sector, focusing on promoting the low-carbon and intelligent transformation of energy, the high-quality development of new energy, the construction of new power systems, the development of new energy storage and other key tasks, formulating supporting policies and measures, and at the same time doing a good job in the national and provincial "14th Five-Year Plan" energy planning convergence work, and weighting the responsibility for renewable energy consumption. Targets such as energy conservation and emission reduction and carbon peaking should be implemented in the plan, giving full play to the leading role of the plan, consolidating the responsibilities of carbon emission reduction at all levels and localities, and supporting qualified localities to take the lead in achieving carbon peaking. Thank you.

After the era of parity comes, subsidies are no longer needed for the development of new energy, but many existing renewable energy projects still have the problem of subsidy arrears, resulting in operational difficulties for some enterprises. At the same time, how can green electricity certificates play a greater role? Thank you.

Thank you for your question, this is a very important and sensitive question, please answer it to Li Chuangjun, Director of the New Energy Department.

Thank you for your question. Our country has made remarkable achievements in the development of renewable energy in recent years, but in the process of development, there are indeed problems such as insufficient subsidy funds and arrears of renewable energy subsidies that you just mentioned. The state attaches great importance to this problem, and the National Energy Administration, together with relevant departments, has carried out active research to explore ways and channels to solve the problem of subsidy arrears. Not long ago, the National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Finance, the People's Bank of China, the China Banking Regulatory Commission and the National Energy Administration jointly issued the Notice on Guiding and Increasing Financial Support to Promote the Healthy and Orderly Development of Wind Power and Photovoltaic Power Generation Industries. In general, there are several measures:

First, financial institutions are encouraged to negotiate with renewable energy companies to extend or renew loans in accordance with the principle of commercialization. At present, some renewable energy enterprises are relatively short of funds due to subsidy arrears, but in fact, these subsidy funds objectively exist and are guaranteed by government credit, so we require financial institutions to extend or renew loans or adjust the repayment schedule and repayment period according to the actual project and cash flow on the basis of independent negotiation between the bank and the enterprise, so as to ensure the continuous cash flow of enterprises.

Second, financial institutions are encouraged to issue subsidized loans for projects that have been included in the subsidy list. Some time ago, the Ministry of Finance and other departments have organized the review of the subsidy list, as long as it passes the review and is included in the subsidy list, it is equivalent to confirming the arrears of subsidies.

Third, enterprises are encouraged to reduce their interest burden and share the interest pressure through green certificate transactions. We and relevant departments are studying the issuance of green certificates to enterprises based on the loan contracts and other materials filed by enterprises, allowing enterprises to reduce the pressure of interest sharing by trading green certificates, which is also an effective means to reduce the burden on enterprises.

Fourth, we need to do a good job in collecting all the additional funds for renewable energy electricity prices. At present, there is an additional "renewable energy electricity price surcharge" in the electricity price, and the current collection rate has not reached 100%, and we hope to achieve 100% additional collection at the front end, in the additional collection link, so as to expand the source of subsidy income and the scale of subsidy income.

Fifth, optimize the management of subsidy funds. Priority will be given to enterprises in projects that voluntarily convert to parity, and at the same time, they will be encouraged to continue to increase credit support for projects and enterprises that voluntarily convert to parity.

The above are a few main ways to solve the problem of subsidy arrears and the lag of subsidy funds, and we will work with relevant departments to further implement various policies and gradually alleviate and finally solve the problem of subsidy arrears. Thank you.

The ninth meeting of the Central Financial and Economic Commission proposed for the first time to build a new power system with new energy as the main body. In addition, the large-scale integration of new energy is characterized by randomness, intermittency and volatility, which will bring complex situations to the real-time balance of the power system. Thank you.

Thank you for your question, and I would like to ask Comrade Huang Xuenong, Director of the Electric Power Department, to answer it.

The ninth meeting of the Central Financial and Economic Commission proposed to build a new power system, which is the inevitable choice for us to achieve the "30·60" goal. Its core feature is that new energy sources become the main body of electricity supply. We must build a new power system, and promote the interconnection and mutual assistance of various energy modes and the deep integration of source, grid, load and storage through equipment technology and institutional innovation, so as to achieve the goals of clean and low-carbon, safe and reliable, intelligent and flexible, and cost-effective. Here I can introduce you to five measures.

First, efforts should be made to build a power production, supply, storage and marketing system that adapts to the development of large-scale new energy to ensure the safety and reliability of electricity. This is a very good question about how to ensure the security of supply. The bottom line for building a new power system is to ensure a secure supply, which is a very important task. Here are some measures: first, we must play the role of a platform for the allocation of resources in the power grid; Second, we must promote the construction of strong local power grids; Third, we must reasonably promote the construction of supporting power supply and basic power supply; Fourth, it is necessary to build a power system with reasonable scale, hierarchical partitioning, safety and reliability, strengthen power safety and disaster resistance, and solidly improve the intrinsic safety level of the power industry.

Second, efforts should be made to improve the flexible adjustment capacity of the power system. Director Jianhua has made a full introduction just now, and I also mentioned when I introduced the problem of avoiding wind and solar curtailment, we should promote the flexible adjustment ability of the power system through the power supply side, the grid side, the demand side, the energy storage side and other aspects, and adapt to the requirements of large-scale new energy grid connection. After the new energy is connected to the grid, there can be no problem of a large number of curtailment of wind and solar power, nor can there be a shortage of electricity, it is necessary to ensure the safety of power supply, and turn the fluctuating and intermittent new energy characteristics into a new system that is friendly and ensures the supply of users through the flexible adjustment of the system.

Third, efforts should be made to promote the interactive integration of source, grid, load and storage, improve the efficiency of system operation, and meet the diversified energy needs of various users. To guide the sustainable and healthy development of new models and new forms of electric power, the supply side should realize multi-energy complementarity and optimization, and the consumption side should be diversified and deeply integrated with electricity, heating and air conditioning, continuously improve the service level of obtaining electricity, and realize the full use of a high proportion of new energy and the harmony and mutual assistance of multiple energy sources. Promote the coupling development of power systems and advanced information and communication control technologies, cultivate new business models, and improve the level of comprehensive energy services for electric power.

Fourth, efforts should be made to increase the focus on tackling key technologies, testing and demonstrating, and popularizing and applying key technologies of the new power system. Promote the deep integration of artificial intelligence, big data, advanced information and communication technologies of the Internet of Things and power technology, and form a key technology system for a new power system with China's independent intellectual property rights. It is necessary to organize the tackling of some key technologies that are stuck in the neck, speed up the research and development and application of key technologies, and carry out a number of innovative engineering demonstrations of new power systems.

Another key is to promote the construction of the power market and the innovation of institutional mechanisms, and build a market system for a new power system. Through the continuous improvement of the power market mechanism, operation mechanism and price mechanism, we will give full play to the decisive role of the market in allocating resources and give better play to the role of the government, and accelerate the construction of a unified, open, competitive and orderly power market system that adapts to the rapid development of new energy. That's all I have to say, thank you.

Non-fossil energy substitution of fossil energy is an important measure to promote low-carbon energy transformation, how will the National Energy Administration accelerate the development of non-fossil energy during the 14th Five-Year Plan period? Thank you.

I would like to ask Mr. Li Fulong, Director of the Planning Division, to answer this question.

This is a very important question from this journalist friend. Vigorously developing non-fossil energy is an important measure to promote low-carbon energy transformation, and Director Zhang Jianhua has just made a very clear and profound elaboration and introduction to the important measures, actions and policies related to carbon peak and carbon neutrality in the energy sector. During the 13th Five-Year Plan period, the proportion of non-fossil energy consumption in our country increased from 12.1% to 15.9%, an average annual increase of 0.76 percentage points. By 2030, the proportion of non-fossil energy consumption will reach about 25%, and the average annual increase in the next ten years will be 0.9 percentage points, which is equivalent to an average annual increase of about 70 million tons of non-fossil energy standard coal, which is indeed a very arduous task. The National Energy Administration is conducting in-depth research and formulating relevant policies and measures, and is ready to increase efforts to promote the accelerated and high-quality development of non-fossil energy from four aspects.

The first is to give play to the role of planning guidance and constraints. We are studying and formulating the "14th Five-Year Plan" modern energy system plan and sub-sector energy planning, the development of non-fossil energy, promote the low-carbon transformation of energy in a prominent position, the preliminary estimate of the "14th Five-Year Plan" period of clean energy accounted for 80% of the increase in energy consumption, 20 percentage points higher than the "13th Five-Year Plan", non-fossil energy will become the main body of energy consumption increase, to achieve the goal of 2030 non-fossil energy consumption of about 25% of the goal of laying a solid foundation. At the same time, we should do a good job in the connection between national energy planning and provincial energy planning, and implement the goals and tasks of promoting low-carbon transformation.

The second is to diversify the development of non-fossil energy. Under the condition of ensuring safety, we will actively and orderly promote the construction of coastal nuclear power, adhere to the priority of ecology, focus on the southwest region, the upper reaches of the Yellow River and other key river basins, develop and build hydropower stations, anchor the target of more than 1.2 billion kilowatts by 2030, and vigorously develop wind power and solar power generation. At the same time, it is also necessary to promote the development and utilization of other renewable energy sources such as biomass energy and geothermal energy according to local conditions.

The third is to optimize the layout of new energy development. On the one hand, it is necessary to continue to strengthen the capacity building of new energy power consumption and cross-regional transmission, orderly promote the centralized development of wind power and photovoltaic power generation, and actively promote the construction of multi-energy complementary clean energy bases; On the other hand, it is necessary to increase the local development and utilization of new energy, and actively develop distributed energy, especially to promote the development of distributed photovoltaic power generation and distributed wind power in the central and eastern regions.

Fourth, strengthen the capacity building of power system flexibility regulation. We will continue to implement the flexible transformation of thermal power, develop natural gas peaking power stations according to local conditions under the condition that the gas source is guaranteed, and accelerate the construction of pumped storage power stations and the research and development and application of new energy storage. Adapt to the large-scale and high-proportion development of new energy, and accelerate the construction of a safe and efficient new power system with new energy as the main body. As Director Huang Xuenong introduced just now, this is the key to ensuring the stable operation of the power system and promoting the high-quality development of new energy. That's where I go.

Director Zhang just talked about international cooperation, can you tell us about international cooperation in nuclear power, including Hualong No. 1? In addition, regarding the situation in Myanmar, for China, the China-Myanmar oil and gas pipeline is a very important energy import channel, and some analysts say that Myanmar's economic situation will affect the energy cooperation between China and Myanmar. Thank you.

China's "Hualong No. 1" technology is now very mature, we are cooperating with many countries in the world, in China we are also vigorously promoting, we want to share China's good technology, good equipment with friends from all over the world, to contribute to the environmental protection of the earth, the common home of mankind, we are willing to do this work, so "Hualong No. 1" "going out" is now very smooth.

With regard to China-Myanmar cooperation, we are very concerned about the changes in the situation in Myanmar, and as a friendly neighbor of China, we are very concerned. For the energy industry, we are also concerned because China and Myanmar have good cooperation, we have a natural gas pipeline, a crude oil pipeline in Myanmar. The friendship between China and Myanmar has endured, and both pipelines are safe at present. Thank you also for your attention. Thank you.

We note that the 2020 Renewable Energy Report released by the International Energy Agency (IEA) shows that China was one of the main drivers of global renewable energy capacity growth in 2020. Thank you.

Thank you for your question. As I mentioned earlier, as the world's largest renewable energy market and equipment manufacturer, China has always been committed to strengthening cooperation with other countries in the field of renewable energy, providing Chinese products, contributing Chinese wisdom and giving full play to China's strength for global energy transition and green development.

We actively participate in the global division of labor to promote the "going out" of renewable energy products, equipment and services. Our hydropower business covers many countries and regions around the world, and Chinese enterprises undertake 70% of overseas hydropower construction tasks. It can be said that most of the world's hydropower construction sites can be found with Chinese personnel. The PV industry supplies 58% of polysilicon, 93% of wafers, 75% of cells, and 73% of modules to the global market. At the same time, China is also the world's largest manufacturer of wind turbines, and our output accounts for half of the world's output, providing Chinese products for global renewable energy. The above data can show that China is definitely the main force in the development of new energy, and it is no exaggeration to say that we are the first.

With the large-scale development of renewable energy, new models and new forms of renewable energy in China are emerging. We have created a new path of photovoltaic poverty alleviation, a new path for renewable energy to help alleviate poverty, provided successful experience for global poverty alleviation, explored a new model of photovoltaic desertification control, and carried out a successful practice of coordinated development of renewable energy and ecological environmental protection. We have promoted new business formats such as agriculture and photovoltaic complementation, fishery and photovoltaic complementation, and animal husbandry and photovoltaic complementation, and are now accelerating the deep integration of renewable energy with traditional industries such as construction, transportation and industry, contributing China's wisdom to the innovative development of global renewable energy.

In particular, in recent years, China has effectively promoted the rapid development and large-scale development of renewable energy through legal guarantees, planning guidance, financial support and other measures, and has made outstanding contributions to the global energy transition. By the end of 2020, China's cumulative installed renewable energy capacity reached 934 million kilowatts, accounting for one-third of the world's total installed renewable energy capacity. In particular, China's wind power and photovoltaic power added about 120 million kilowatts of installed capacity last year, accounting for more than half of the world's new installed wind power and photovoltaic capacity, becoming the backbone of global renewable energy development. The large-scale development of renewable energy in China has also effectively promoted the rapid progress of renewable energy, especially wind power and photovoltaic represented by new energy technology, and the cost has also dropped rapidly, the economy has been rapidly improved, and the competitiveness has been rapidly improved, making global renewable energy, especially wind power and photovoltaic power generation, accelerate to become the main new energy source has become a reality. It can be said that without the large-scale development of renewable energy in China, there would be no rapid rise of global renewable energy, and China has made China's contribution to the global energy transition and climate change. Thank you.

With data showing a 40% year-on-year drop in China's coal imports from January to February, and China's current ban on Australian coal, will there be uncertainty about China's coal supply this year? Thank you.

I would like to ask Li Fulong to answer this question.

The question you are asking is very important. First, China has been in the global system for many years, and China's economy and energy have become more and more deeply integrated into the world trade system. Second, in terms of market demand, ensuring China's economic development and people's livelihood in terms of energy demand is the basis of energy supply. We have always adhered to the principles of openness, mutual benefit and win-win international cooperation, including the issue of international coal trade you just mentioned, and these guidelines and benchmarks have been adhered to for a long time and remain steadfast. Third, market volatility and demand changes are normal, and it is normal for energy supply and demand to change due to the pandemic, and it is normal for countries to gradually resume production, not only in China, but also globally. That's my simple answer.

Thank you Fulong, and thank you for your attention. The National Energy Administration has a very important job, which is to ensure the safe supply of national energy, so no matter what the circumstances, with the support of local governments at all levels and the close cooperation of the majority of enterprises, the safe supply of energy can be effectively guaranteed, and there is no obvious gap this year, and we are very confident and capable of ensuring the needs of all aspects of national energy.

Thank you Director Zhang and the three directors, thank you journalists, this is the end of today's press conference, goodbye everyone!

(Transferred from the official account of the State News Network and the National Energy Administration)