(Source: China Business Network 2026-03-06)
On March 5, Premier Li Qiang delivered a government work report at the Fourth Session of the 14th National People’s Congress.
Regarding the main goals and major tasks during the "15th Five-Year Plan" period, the government work report proposed that it is necessary to highlight the overall coordination of development and security and enhance the supply guarantee capabilities of energy resources and other supplies. In addition, the report points out efforts to build a new power system, accelerate the construction of smart grids, vigorously develop new energy storage, and expand the application of green electricity. It is worth noting that the report also mentions future energy and green fuels for the first time.
Coordinate energy security and green and low-carbon transformation
Dong Xiucheng, energy economist and professor at w88 casinoIn an interview with a reporter from China Business News, he said that energy security has always been a core issue that our country attaches great importance to. my country's overall energy self-sufficiency rate remains high and stable, but its dependence on foreign oil and natural gas is still at a high level.
Dong XiuchengAccording to analysis, in recent years, my country has vigorously promoted the diversification and decentralization of energy import sources and channels, and continuously strengthened the construction of the energy reserve system; at the same time, the large-scale development of new energy sources such as wind power, photovoltaics, and electric vehicles has achieved remarkable results, building a solid barrier for all-round protection of national energy security.
“The mention of energy security in the government work report means that our country will further enhance the resilience of energy security and build a solid energy foundation for high-quality economic and social development. ”Dong XiuchengThink.
Lin Boqiang, dean of the China Energy Policy Research Institute at Xiamen University, told reporters that the recent situation in the Middle East has continued to be tense, and this incident has sounded the alarm for my country's energy security. During the "15th Five-Year Plan" period, our country needs to firmly grasp its energy autonomy and truly "take energy into its own hands." At the same time, it will continue to expand industries such as wind power, photovoltaics, new energy vehicles, and new energy storage, focus on solving key blockages in various fields, and effectively resist geopolitical risks with an independent and controllable energy system.
It is worth noting that in recent years, my country has accelerated the promotion of green and low-carbon development and vigorously cultivated new energy industries such as wind power and photovoltaics. It has now built a world-leading, independently controllable and internationally competitive full industrial chain system, laying a solid industrial foundation for the construction of new energy systems.
Data disclosed in the government work report show that my country's first batch of "Shagehuang" new energy base projects have been basically completed and put into operation. The installed capacity of new energy storage exceeds 130 million kilowatts, and the proportion of non-fossil energy consumption reaches 21.7%.
At the same time, the government work report clearly stated that our country should actively and steadily promote carbon peak carbon neutrality, focus on building a new power system, accelerate the construction of smart grids, vigorously develop new energy storage, continue to expand the scope of green power applications, and promote green and low-carbon transformation.
Lin Boqiang believes that under the guidance of the "dual carbon" goal, the construction of my country's new power system needs to continue to be deepened and promoted. Among them, new energy storage and smart grid, as the two core links, are the key support to solve the problems of volatility, intermittency and randomness of new energy power generation such as wind power and photovoltaic. They are directly related to whether new energy can be safely and stably connected to the grid for consumption, and are an important guarantee for promoting energy transformation.
Lin Boqiang further emphasized to reporters that the development of the energy storage industry will become the core focus of energy transformation during the "15th Five-Year Plan" period. Only by realizing large-scale expansion of the energy storage industry and relying on scale effects to continue to drive down costs can we lay a solid foundation for the large-scale and high-proportion development of new energy. This is also a necessary prerequisite for my country's energy transformation to enter a new stage.
The first mention of future energy and green fuel
The government work report clearly points out that we must vigorously develop a green and low-carbon economy, establish a national low-carbon transformation fund, focus on cultivating new economic growth points such as hydrogen energy and green fuels, and inject strong impetus into the development of green and low-carbon industries.
Lin Boqiang told reporters that hydrogen energy is crucial to the consumption of renewable energy power, especially suitable for the wind and solar power consumption scenario in western my country. Currently, the western region relies on the "coal power + UHV" model of exporting wind power and photovoltaic power, but there are obvious shortcomings in green attributes.
Lin Boqiang pointed out that in the future, as the proportion of new energy in the power system continues to increase, and the economics of the entire chain of hydrogen production, hydrogen storage, hydrogen transportation, and hydrogen use from renewable energy gradually become apparent, hydrogen energy will have dual value—it is both a stabilizer for the new power system and a new engine for economic growth.
Green fuel, which is closely related to hydrogen energy, was included in the government work report for the first time, attracting widespread attention in the industry.
It is understood that the green liquid fuels currently focused on by the market mainly include green alcohol, green ammonia, sustainable aviation fuel, etc., which have become an important direction to achieve decarbonization goals in the fields of aerospace, shipping and chemical industry, and the green hydrogen ammonia alcohol industry is gradually moving from the demonstration stage to the commercial development stage.
Zhong Baoshen, deputy to the National People's Congress and chairman and general manager of LONGi Green Energy, said that as the cost of power generation from renewable energy sources such as wind power and photovoltaics in my country has dropped significantly, a solid economic foundation has been laid for the large-scale preparation of green hydrogen and its derivatives (green ammonia, green methanol). The green hydrogen ammonia alcohol industry has multiple strategic values such as clean energy substitution, high-end chemical industry upgrading, and deep decarbonization of the whole society. Although the current industrial development is still in its infancy, there is huge potential for future development.
It is worth mentioning that in recent years, our country has actively cultivated and expanded emerging industries and future industries. Among them, future energy has also been included in the government work report for the first time, demonstrating the country's strategic considerations in laying out the future of energy in a forward-looking manner.
What specific fields does future energy cover? According to the "Implementation Opinions on Promoting Future Industrial Innovation and Development" jointly issued by seven departments including the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology in 2024, future energy mainly focuses on nuclear energy, nuclear fusion, hydrogen energy, biomass and other fields, and also includes new crystalline silicon solar cells, thin film solar cells, new energy storage and other subdivisions.
The 2026 National Energy Work Conference held in December 2025 proposed that we should accelerate the promotion of self-reliance and self-reliance in energy science and technology and proactively deploy hydrogen energy, nuclear energy and other future energy industries.
Dong Xiuchengbelieves: “From a broad perspective, non-fossil energy developed to cope with global climate change and promote energy transformation can be regarded as ‘future energy’. In addition to hydropower, wind power, and photovoltaics, nuclear fusion energy (controllable nuclear fusion), hydrogen energy, geothermal energy, ocean energy, biomass energy, etc. all fall into this category. We must actively promote the accelerated development of future energy with commercial prospects.”
Lin Boqiang also said that there will be many types of energy coverage in the future, including cutting-edge clean energy such as controllable nuclear fusion, as well as innovative directions such as space photovoltaics. He believes that our country should continue to track the research and development progress of these cutting-edge technologies and actively explore feasible paths for their commercialization.
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