State Council: Promote the green and clean development of key energy sectors, gradually clarify the minimum proportion target of renewable energy consumption.

date
03/07/2026
The State Council issued the "Beautiful China Construction "Fifteen-Five" Plan", which mentioned promoting the green and clean development of key energy-consuming industries, gradually clarifying the minimum proportion target of renewable energy consumption, and building a number of green factories. Promote the local utilization of renewable energy in western regions, and orderly promote high-energy-consumption industries that meet the requirements to transfer to regions rich in renewable energy resources. Revise the guidance catalog for industrial restructuring, include low-efficiency, high-energy-consuming, and high-emission processes and equipment in the elimination category. Promote the electrification of airport operations and the application of shore power at ports, and develop sustainable aviation fuels. Increase the proportion of bulk cargo transportation by railways and waterways and the proportion of new energy vehicle transportation, promote the large-scale application of new energy transportation tools, accelerate the construction of supporting renewable energy facilities, establish a "gather outside, distribute inside" goods transportation mode, encourage the implementation of zero-emission freight transportation pilots, promote the construction of zero-carbon transportation corridors, and ensure that the clean transportation proportion in key industries reaches 75% and in key areas for air pollution control reaches 85%. Strengthen energy-saving and carbon reduction transformations of existing buildings and municipal facilities, and develop green buildings in urban and rural areas. Develop technical guidelines for coordinated pollution reduction and carbon reduction governance in key industries and ecological environmental infrastructure, establish a synergy index, deepen the pilot projects for coordinated innovation in pollution reduction and carbon reduction in cities and industrial parks.