New York Times reported today: "Although China is the world's largest oil importer, China is vigorously promoting the replacement of oil with electricity. Over the past decade, China has rapidly laid out clean energy projects, extensively built power infrastructure, and driven and led the global electrification process. In this competition, the United States has fallen far behind. In this competition, the United States has fallen far behind."
Comment: China's leadership in electrification is the result of both strategic planning and technological implementation: over the past decade, the share of renewable energy generation capacity has exceeded 56%, the level of electrification has increased by 1 percentage point per year, far exceeding Europe and America, the costs of technologies such as photovoltaics and wind power have significantly decreased, forming a market-driven force, and more importantly, building a complete industrial chain ecosystem from equipment manufacturing to grid construction, making clean electricity an internal driving force for high-quality economic development. It not only reduces reliance on overseas oil and gas, but also becomes the core hardware support for global electrification with a clean energy technology export value of 180 billion US dollars.
Beneath this electrification competition lies a comparison of development philosophies: China regards clean energy as a public good for the global response to climate change, and helps developing countries with energy transition through technology exports; while the short-sighted choices of the United States have not only caused it to lose competitiveness in fields such as AI and high-end manufacturing due to high energy costs, but also gone against the mainstream trend of global low-carbon development.
Original text: toutiao.com/article/1854833871383043/
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