How China Plans to Win the Future of Energy

Two factors to consider when you say China's consumption of energy: 1. The 1.4B population, that is 1/5 of the world population; 2. The role of "world factory" that China plays in the global economy. Most of the goods in Walmart in US are made and imported from China.

All of a sudden western media forgets "per capita".

The work done to distort ideas about China is impressive. What China did was simply invest seriously in a strategic objective for the country and the world and that is why it became this dominant. Nothing more than that. But here in the West, they treat China as an enemy and try to associate everything that is bad with its image. The right thing to do would be for the West to do its job and invest seriously in the energy transition instead of using excuses and harmful propaganda to try to diminish China.

I have 50 Solar Panels from China for 10 years now. Every year 11.000 kWh clean Energy. And my village has 35 hectare Solar Park Chinese Panels. 35 million kWh production every year. Thank you China.

When you say China consumes more than the US, you need to caveat that by stating the per capita figures: China's avg use per person (5,885 kWh) is LESS THAN HALF of the US's per capita avg (12,154 kWh), even while having a vastly larger population and hosting most of the manufacturing for the rest of the world.

This vedio shows me how you can report a positive thing in a negative way.

I like most of the viewers' comments more than the video. China is trying its best and work double hard to contribute to a greener world environment and I think she should deserve more credit and recognition for her efforts. Per capita should be the more appropriate measure of which country is the biggest consumption of energy.

Away from the geopolitics for a moment, massive respect to China for developing how to build infrastructure almost better than any other country in the world.

Mention of China as the world's "largest polluter" isn't fair when cumulative historical emissions from the US and Europe are far greater than that of China, particularly since we outsource our manufacturing to them; those are our emissions, too.

Base on CO2 per capita, the US is still by far the biggest polluter.

You can't expect a developing country to reduce carbon so easily it takes time The developed countries should be the one to reduce carbon first especially America and Europe 🙄

I love how the massive hydropower chunk was omitted when she talks about renewable energy in china.

I feel so hypocritical when people say 'CHINA consumes A QUARTER of whole world energy, even more than USA, off course they will they are 1.4 billion people and now check per capita consumption's of both USA and China and then speak

16:04 "Will they (China) make it?" With that kinda of mentality it's no wonder it takes forever for the US to get anything done.

On Zhihu, the Chinese version of quora, you can see discussions and debates about nuclear energy or other issues in China. It is not that there are no voices questioning nuclear energy, but it has been ignored by the Western media because of language barriers. Questions and protests against government policies and officials also exist. In China, there is a saying that a child who can cry gets milk. In fact, when the Western media attacked the Chinese government for having human rights issues in Xinjiang, they looked like fools from the Chinese point of view. China is indeed facing huge social structural problems, and those blind Western media who want to attack the Communist Party will only make up false lies.

5:40 I am so proud as an American that we made China to sign the Paris agreement, then we swiftly withdraw from it hat rabbit hole in 2017. US is such a smooth operator.

The main difference is "China's willingness to invest in the future." I don't see that in the west.

Climate is a "we" issue, not "they". Will they make it? should be Will we make it?

Interesting how they said that China has a long standing pollution problem while showing cars driving on a freeway when they have 40 thousand kilometers of electric high speed rail, whereas the US has none and relies entirely on car traffic.

Sounds like a really smart, forward-thinking country building towards common prosperity! Wish we had that something like that in the states 👍