In 2021, Guangdong led the country with GDP of 12436.967 billion yuan, surpassing the GDP of Canada and South Korea for the first time. But just 20 years ago, a power shortage crisis broke out across the country. In some cities, even municipal street lights could not be guaranteed. shutting down has become common in Guangdong. This accelerated the West-to-East Power Transmission Project, which has the largest project volume and the largest investment amount among the key projects in my country's western development. The total investment of the
West-to-East Power Transmission project is 520 billion yuan. On November 8, 2000, the construction of Hongjiadu Hydropower Station, Yinzidu Hydropower Station, and Wujiangdu Hydropower Station in Guizhou Province was started at the same time. Between 2000 and 2022, Guizhou has transported 645.164 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity to Guangdong, with an annual transmission of equivalent to one-third of Guangzhou's electricity demand, reducing carbon emissions by 24 million tons per year.
Baihetan Hydropower Station
As early as 2010, China's national power generation reached the world's first place. Of the 4141.3 billion kWh of electricity that year, thermal power accounted for 80%, and hydropower has become my country's second largest source of electricity. However, hydraulic power is greatly affected by the weather, and high temperatures and droughts may cause unstable power supply. At this time, Europe, thousands of miles away, focused on the next bet of the power industry on photovoltaics. After 2000, Germany, Italy and Spain successively issued solar energy bills, but photovoltaic assembly at that time was a labor-intensive industry that required a lot of manpower. What was China the most undefeated at that time? It's human. Since then, China has started another 20 years of ups and downs in the photovoltaic industry.
In 2001, Shi Zhengrong returned to China from the solar energy research institute of a foreign university to establish Wuxi Suntech Power Company. By doing low-end assembly and OEM for foreign countries, it quickly became the world's largest polysilicon battery module manufacturer. Just five years later, Shi Zhengrong became the richest man in China. Not only , Suntech , in 2007, there were nearly 1,000 photovoltaic companies in China and 11 were listed in the United States.
Suntech was listed in 2005, and it was also the same year that China's photovoltaics attracted the attention of European and American capital. Foreign upstream and downstream companies have joined hands to cut leeks. In three years, the price of polysilicon raw materials has increased by 12 times. Due to the impact of the financial crisis, European countries have reduced subsidies to new energy, and downstream sales have also been suppressed. Photovoltaic companies that grew up like bamboo shoots after a rain fell like dominoes. In 2011, 90% of photovoltaic companies stopped production, and only a few industry giants remained persistent. But by 2013, the debt of 11 leading companies also reached 150 billion.
But what is the temper of Chinese people? If you stuck my neck, as long as I can't kill me, I will definitely make it better than you. As early as 2007, my country issued a document on the construction of large-scale grid-connected photovoltaic demonstration power stations, and determined that it would be built in deserts, Gobi and other places. In 2005, when the whole country was working hard to assemble polycrystalline silicon, a company that is regarded as an "outlier" actually chose the development of single-crystalline silicon , which is Longi Green Energy Technology Co., Ltd. . Longi Green Energy Technology Co., Ltd. knows that if photovoltaics wants to make a start, the only way is to reduce the cost to the same as thermal power generation. Longi Green Energy Technology Co., Ltd. also knows that to build a long-term enterprise, we must take core technology into our own hands.
After the waves of the financial crisis, Longi Green Energy Technology Co., Ltd. was listed in Shanghai in 2012. In 2013, Longi Green Energy Technology Co., Ltd. had the largest shipment of single crystal silicon wafers in the world. In 2015, Longi Green Energy Technology Co., Ltd. opened up the integration of the industrial chain, and its revenue soared from 100 million yuan to 2.5 billion yuan in one year. In 2016, the then president of Li Zhenguo said that even if the cost of polysilicon is reduced to 0, we have a competitive advantage over them. By 2019, in four years, the market share of monocrystalline silicon has increased from 19% to 62%, and Longi Green Energy Technology Co., Ltd. has deservedly changed the market structure.
In 2021, my country added photovoltaic power generation grid-connected installed capacity 53GW, the world's first for nine consecutive years. Photovoltaic product exports were US$28.4 billion, a year-on-year increase of 43.9%. Among the top 10 photovoltaic module suppliers in the world in 2021, China occupies 8 seats, capturing the top 6, achieving the well-deserved world number one.
2021, China's total power generation was 8112.2 billion kWh, thermal power generation was 71.13%, hydropower generation was 14.6%, and wind, nuclear and solar energy accounted for 6.99%, 5.02%, and 2.26% respectively.Looking back, when New China was first founded, it devoted all its efforts to send out 4.3 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity every year. Whether it is the 50 years of thermal power climbing, the 10 years of hydropower taking off, or the photovoltaic and nuclear power that are about to lead the future, you and I are all witnesses on China's road to revival.
The EU resolution will invest 565 billion euros by 2030 to get rid of its dependence on fossil fuels. In the first half of this year, China's exports to Europe increased by 137% year-on-year. I don’t know if China will do what it means to do, but I know that in the future of technology, no one can stop China’s path.
