China has announced a number of projects aimed at addressing climate change and enhancing the country’s path to carbon neutrality.
According to a government work report submitted to the national legislature for deliberation on 5 March, the country will focus on offshore wind farms, new energy bases in desert regions, such as the Gobi Desert, and low-carbon technology trials at coal-fired power plants.
‘Major projects’
In a statement, the country’s Xinhua news agency said that ‘China plans to develop a package of major projects for climate change response and actively engage in and steer global environmental and climate governance in 2025’.
Among the measures cited, the Chinese government plans to accelerate the integration of renewable energy into local grids across the country and expand transmission infrastructure to support this transition.
Increased investment
The report also highlights increased investment in environmental protection, with 34 billion yuan allocated for air pollution control, 26.7 billion yuan for water pollution prevention, and 4.4 billion yuan for soil pollution mitigation.
Additionally, China aims to strengthen recycling efforts and promote the use of renewable materials, it noted.
‘China will actively and prudently work towards peaking carbon emissions and achieving carbon neutrality,’ Reuters quoted the report as saying.
Elsewhere, China said that its new government debt for 2025 will total 11.86 trillion yuan (about $1.66 trillion), an increase of 2.9 trillion yuan from last year, which will support a higher level of fiscal spending.
The country also added that it opposes ‘unilateralism and protectionism in all forms, and will uphold international fairness and justice’, a not to subtle swipe at recent tariffs imposed by the United States. Read more here and here.
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