The energy system reform is accelerating, speeding up the pace of green transformation.

Energy security is a comprehensive and strategic issue that affects the overall development of a nation’s economy and society. During the 13th Five-Year Plan period, China vigorously promoted multiple reforms—ranging from energy systems to energy consumption—and continuously refined its clean, low-carbon, safe, and efficient energy framework. As a result, China’s energy sector has taken new strides toward high-quality development.

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2021-01-20

Energy security is a comprehensive and strategic issue that affects the overall development of a nation’s economy and society. During the 13th Five-Year Plan period, China vigorously promoted reforms in areas such as energy systems and energy consumption, continuously enhancing a clean, low-carbon, safe, and efficient energy framework. As a result, China’s energy sector has taken new strides toward high-quality development.

These past two days, at the dispatch center of the National Pipeline Network, staff members have been remotely controlling oil and gas pipeline equipment located thousands of miles away. Since entering the heating season, China’s centrally coordinated natural gas pipeline throughput has surpassed 600 million cubic meters for the first time. The nation’s integrated pipeline network is now capable of unified scheduling to ensure winter heating supplies—thanks to the energy system reforms implemented during China’s 13th Five-Year Plan period. In 2019, the National Pipeline Group was established, enabling major national oil and gas pipelines to operate seamlessly interconnected, thus facilitating flexible allocation of oil and gas resources across different pipeline systems.

Currently, the national pipeline network manages and operates 90,000 kilometers of integrated oil and gas trunk pipelines. In addition, market-oriented reforms in electricity and coal sectors have yielded remarkable results, with the scale of market-based transactions continuing to expand, effectively reducing production and operational costs for enterprises.

During the 13th Five-Year Plan period, China’s energy security and green transition have reached new milestones. In 2019, domestic crude oil production surged to 191 million tons, reversing the sustained decline that had persisted since 2016, while newly proven reserves increased by approximately 5 billion tons. Meanwhile, natural gas output climbed to 173.3 billion cubic meters in 2019, marking over 10 billion cubic meters of growth for the third consecutive year. China’s total installed power generation capacity exceeded 2 billion kilowatts, with clean energy sources such as wind and solar accounting for more than 40% of the country’s total installed capacity. Additionally, the share of non-fossil fuel consumption rose steadily from 12% in 2015 to 15.3% in 2019. For many years in a row, China has remained the world’s largest investor in renewable energy, consistently ranking first globally in both installed renewable energy capacity and electricity generation.

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