Recently, at a press conference held by the National Energy Administration, Dong Wancheng, Deputy Director of the Development Planning Department of the National Energy Administration, introduced that in the first half of 2023, the investment in key national energy projects exceeded 1 trillion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 23.9%. This effectively played a role in stabilizing investment and promoting growth, and also injected momentum and vitality into high-quality economic and social development.

The national energy investment maintains a rapid growth trend. Actively expanding effective investment in the energy sector, vigorously and orderly promoting the construction of major infrastructure and new infrastructure, and driving investment growth to maintain a high level. From a regional perspective, the investment completed in the eastern, central, and western regions increased by 24.8%, 22.1%, and 24.2% year-on-year, respectively. From a hierarchical perspective, the driving effect of national major project investment continues to emerge, with strong investment growth in projects at and below the provincial level.

New energy investment is growing rapidly. The proportion of completed investment in new energy is close to 40%, and the construction of centralized photovoltaic projects in Gansu, Xinjiang, Shanxi, Hubei, Yunnan, Guangdong and other regions has accelerated, with completed investment amounts exceeding 10 billion yuan; Shandong, Henan, and Zhejiang have increased their efforts in urban and rural distributed photovoltaic layout construction, with completed investment amounts exceeding 12 billion yuan; Inner Mongolia and Gansu continue to promote the construction of large-scale wind and photovoltaic base projects, with an increasing trend in centralized wind power investment. Offshore wind power projects in Shandong and Guangdong have started construction in a centralized manner. In addition, a batch of biomass power generation projects in Hubei, Anhui, Jiangxi and other regions have accelerated the formation of effective investments. Editor/Zhao E