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China’s renewables boom enters new phase as industrial transformation takes centre stage

Agora analysis highlights China’s clean energy shift towards system integration and industry. The new Five-Year Plan should further grid flexibility, demand-side response and industrial electrification to sustain emission cuts and enhance energy security.

Press release from Agora Energiewende

Berlin & Beijing, 17 June 2026. China’s ability to deliver sustained emission reductions now depends on translating its rapid renewable energy expansion into industrial transformation, according to a new analysis by Agora Energy China and Agora Energiewende. The country’s energy transition is entering a new phase in which central priorities also include system integration and an absolute emission reduction trajectory. 

Released ahead of China’s 15th Five-Year Plan (FYP, 2026-2030) for energy development, the data-driven analysis identifies ten major trends that shaped the country’s energy and industrial transition during the previous FYP period (2021-2025).

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The Other Face of Chinese Development

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There is no modern parallel for the pace of Chinese development. Economically speaking, China was a third world nation only decades ago. Now it has surpassed the US and enters 2015 as the World’s leading economy and biggest polluter. The other face of Chinese development is that it also leads the World in the development of renewable energy.

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