{"id":488890,"date":"2026-01-03T07:11:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T07:11:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/488890\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T07:11:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T07:11:15","slug":"china-vows-to-ramp-up-west-to-east-power-output-as-ai-hi-tech-manufacturing-fuel-demand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/488890\/","title":{"rendered":"China vows to ramp up west-to-east power output as AI, hi-tech manufacturing fuel demand"},"content":{"rendered":"

China aims to expand its west-to-east power transmission network to more than 420 gigawatts (GW) by 2030, increasing the share of renewables to about 30 per cent of total electricity output as it pursues a greener transition<\/a> and a more reliable power supply.<\/p>\n

The targets were outlined in guidelines issued by the National Development and Reform Commission, the country\u2019s top economic planner, together with the National Energy Administration.<\/p>\n

In addition to strengthening long-distance transmission lines that move power from the resource-rich west to major demand centres in the east, the guidelines called for adding about 40 GW of interprovincial transfer capacity by 2030, aiming to \u201ceffectively improve the grid\u2019s ability to optimise resource allocation\u201d.<\/p>\n

The west-to-east transmission project was estimated to reach a capacity of over 340 GW by the end of 2025, up 25 per cent from 270 GW at the end of the 13th five-year plan, according to Communist Party mouthpiece the People\u2019s Daily, which reported the figures in October.<\/p>\n

The new guidelines, released on Wednesday, came as Beijing steps up efforts to safeguard energy security amid expectations of rising demand fuelled by intensifying global competition in sectors such as artificial intelligence (AI)<\/a> and hi-tech manufacturing.
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Xi pledges to cut China\u2019s climate emissions by up to 10%<\/p>\n

Xi pledges to cut China\u2019s climate emissions by up to 10%<\/p>\n

On the renewable energy front, China aims to boost the grid\u2019s capacity to accommodate 900 GW of distributed renewables by 2030, while supporting more than 40 million charging stations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"China aims to expand its west-to-east power transmission network to more than 420 gigawatts (GW) by 2030, increasing…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":488891,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[691,9710,64,74,17437,79,24440,212537,1981,67,132,68,220606,220605],"class_list":{"0":"post-488890","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-beijing","10":"tag-business","11":"tag-china","12":"tag-communist-party","13":"tag-economy","14":"tag-national-development-and-reform-commission","15":"tag-national-energy-administration","16":"tag-peoples-daily","17":"tag-united-states","18":"tag-unitedstates","19":"tag-us","20":"tag-us-energy-information-administration","21":"tag-west-to-east-power-transmission"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115829924431656820","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=488890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488890\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/488891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=488890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=488890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=488890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}