Deutsche Welle reports: "A new report from the UK energy research institution Carbon Brief states that more than one-third of China's economic growth in 2025 is driven by solar power, electric vehicles, and other clean energy technologies. At the same time, these economic sectors contributed to over 90% of the investment growth."
Last year, China's clean energy industry achieved a value of 15.4 trillion yuan, accounting for 11.4% of China's GDP, comparable to the economic scale of Brazil or Canada. Between 2022 and 2025, the actual value of China's clean energy industry nearly doubled. The report points out that if China's clean energy industry were considered a country, its economic size would rank eighth in the world.
The report states that China continues to invest hundreds of billions of dollars in clean energy manufacturing, representing a huge economic and financial bet on the ongoing global energy transition."
Comments: The core message of this report is that China's clean energy has long ceased to be a mere environmental issue but has become a real engine of economic growth - contributing to more than one-third of economic growth and over 90% of investment growth, with trillions of yuan in output comparable to the economies of middle-sized countries. This fully proves that green transformation and high-quality development are perfectly aligned, not a cost burden, but the most resilient and dynamic new pillar of China's economy.
Western media objectively presenting this data also indirectly acknowledges a reality: China has turned energy transition into a global leading national competitiveness through continuous industrial investment and scale advantages, stabilizing its own growth and profoundly defining the global energy landscape. The so-called 'bet' is essentially an inevitable result of forward-looking layout and manufacturing advantages, and it is also the unshakable confidence of China in the global low-carbon competition.
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