From October 20 to 22, along the banks of the Huangpu River in Shanghai, the 2026 Sustainable Global Leaders Conference returns once again. Nobel Prize and Turing Award winners will share insights on the future and trends of technology on site, and the internet-famous professor who "rescues" people from anxiety and the era of intense competition — Macfarlane — will engage in a live dialogue with Xiang Biao!
Limited seats available, first come first served. Let us join together for the sustainable cause! [Click to register] On October 15, the 2026 Beijing International Wind Power Conference and Exhibition (CWP 2026) officially kicked off. CWP 2026 held a themed event titled "Wind and Solar Give Rise to All Things, Opening a New Paradigm of Industrial Civilization" and issued an initiative, calling on the world to work together to expand new spaces for diversified applications of green electricity. Bi Yaxiong, former director and deputy party secretary of China Southern Power Grid, read out the Beijing Initiative. The initiative proposes that by relying on high-redundancy wind and solar installed capacity to produce green electricity, and then producing hydrogen, ammonia, and methanol, which possess dual attributes as both fuel and raw material, these can be widely applied across various sectors. Human industrial production will shift from "exhausting the Earth" to "capturing wind and sunlight," and "Wind and Solar Give Rise to All Things" will give birth to a new paradigm of industrial civilization.
The initiative points out that the vision of "Wind and Solar Give Rise to All Things" needs to be advanced in phases: by 2030, China's electricity share of terminal energy consumption will reach around 35%; by 2035, the national electrification rate will rise to 40%; and by 2050, it will exceed 50%. By 2030, the national cumulative installed capacity of wind power will reach 1.3 billion kilowatts; by 2035, no less than 2 billion kilowatts; and by 2060, 5 billion kilowatts. The share of wind power generation will be no less than 15% by 2030, reach over 20% by 2035, and exceed 30% by 2050. By 2030, the national scale of renewable hydrogen production will reach over 4 million tons, and the combined annual production capacity of green ammonia and green methanol will reach over 10 million tons. By 2035, the annual production capacity of green hydrogen, green ammonia, and green methanol will strive to each exceed the ten-million-ton level.
To promote the realization of the "Wind and Solar Give Rise to All Things" vision, the initiative clearly identifies five actions that need to be taken, including "strengthening policy support mechanisms," "intensifying core technology breakthroughs," "enhancing industrial chain coordination and collaboration," "increasing green finance support," and "deepening high-level international cooperation." The initiative recommends: optimizing the systems for direct green electricity connection, nearby consumption, and cross-regional mutual support to open up green electricity application channels; improving pricing mechanisms adapted to diversified green electricity applications to enhance the market competitiveness of green hydrogen, ammonia, and methanol; perfecting green certificate management and carbon emission accounting systems for non-electric sectors to ensure that the environmental value of green electricity is verifiable, tradable, and cross-border credible; establishing cross-departmental coordination mechanisms to dynamically resolve bottlenecks in project implementation. Conquering wide-load water electrolysis hydrogen production and flexible ammonia/methanol synthesis processes, and breaking through long-duration energy storage technologies; developing "electricity-microorganism" key technologies to reduce the process costs of electricity-produced protein and electro-reduction of carbon dioxide; developing grid-forming technologies to ensure the stable operation of new-type power systems; relying on typical scenarios to build demonstration projects and explore replicable business models. Power generation enterprises should incorporate "power-to-product direction" into preliminary feasibility studies of projects; wind and solar bases and hydrogen-ammonia-methanol projects should be planned and constructed in a coordinated manner to promote local conversion of green electricity; relying on zero-carbon park construction, build multi-energy coordinated micro-circulation systems; steel, chemical, shipping, and other enterprises should clarify green electricity substitution targets to stabilize market demand for green electricity and green hydrogen. Guiding social capital toward green electricity conversion projects; financial institutions should open special review channels to focus on supporting projects with commercial closed loops; making good use of green bonds and carbon financial instruments, innovating credit services, and supporting mature projects in conducting infrastructure REITs pilots. Building multi-level cooperation platforms and conducting green electricity conversion technology seminars; jointly carrying out frontier technology breakthroughs and promoting mutual recognition of standards and sharing of results; strengthening international cooperation in investment, equipment, and engineering, and building a number of benchmark projects; providing integrated green energy solutions tailored to local conditions globally.
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