Manya Rathore
Research expert covering India
Electricity in China - statistics & facts
The Chinese electricity industry has been in the focus of both domestic and international discussions ever since the reform and opening of the People’s Republic in the late 1970s. Seen as the engine room of industrial momentum, the government prioritized the expansion of the pre-existing generation system using cheap and available resources. This has resulted in much effort being placed into the buildup of coal power plants and made China the country with the largest installed coal capacity in the world. Nevertheless, coal power is not the only energy segment in which China takes the lead.
