A little-known revolution is quietly taking place – China will move toward green development. Governments to encourage, stimulate new wind energy equipment manufacturer’s production, “China price” and “China Speed” is ready to grab a 1,000,000,000,000,000 U.S. dollars of the world’s next giant of the industry – energy technology.

Global 1 / 3 of the solar cell manufacturers from China, this figure is six times that the United States. By 2010, China will become the world’s largest wind turbine market, this result also surpassed the United States. This fall, a Chinese company will launch the world’s first all-electric vehicles for mass production. “China’s per hour on the installation of one megawatt of wind turbines”, the World Wildlife Fund representative in Beijing, Dermot Gorman said, “This is more than a week to add a thermal power plant encouraging.”

Indeed, China is the field of renewable energy technologies to catch up, it hopes to stand in this is considered to be the next industrial revolution the forefront of the industry. If China’s successful, will have far-reaching significance of this planet – from Detroit’s auto industry into the 21st century, global warming, and even the ranking of the world economy will be seriously affected.

Wind Energy: gracefully swept the world

Starting 20 minutes drive from the Great Wall, we came to the Guanting reservoir. The south bank of the reservoir, wearing a straw hat of the farmers are labors, their heads elegance of wind power blades are facing the breeze, slowly rotating, “hard” the nature of the wind.

Guanting Reservoir next to the 43 wind power stations for the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games provided some green energy, but they not only have the power generation function: These wind farms have become newlyweds wedding photographs the most popular locations.

“They discovered the beauty of the windmills generators and the spectacular,” said Zhi-Yong Yin Guanting wind power plant manager. Yoon is a director of the coal engineer, 20 years ago, when he was no wind reading this course. But today he was convinced that the “new energy is a new direction of national development.”

The Chinese government holds the same view. China’s installed wind power capacity in the past four years, doubled and redoubled, evidently likely to be completed next year, the 2020 target. The official also announced that the improved objective will be installed by 2020 volume is now 3 times. Beijing intends to use a large number of subsidies, tax incentives to stimulate the development of wind power, but also developed a similar U.S. laws and regulations to help energy companies to purchase and use of renewable energy. Wind power generation facilities grew very rapidly, so that the electricity grid were once more than the load.

It now appears that the industry in the promotion of government policies, vision has been beyond this. Wuhan Iron and Steel Xinjiang Gold Wind generators Science and Technology Co., Ltd. CEO, Guanting reservoir wind plant is built, he single-handedly. An interview, he said: “Our goal is to become an international gold wind multinationals.” He then pointed out that gold is the United States, Texas, the construction of the wind the wind plant, its core technology through the acquisition of German Vensys 70% of the shares of the company to get. This example illustrates a key strategy of Chinese companies: if they do not have time to develop mature technology, it would use money as a stepping stone to the use of acquired technology to achieve a leading position.

China-related decision-making departments hope that by 2020, renewable energy in national energy the proportion rose to 20%, which is unchanged from the EU’s future goals.

Energy: private enterprise into the vanguard of

BYD Auto expects to launch this fall, an all-electric cars, BYD has been previously introduced the world’s first mass production of plug-in hybrid vehicles. Passenger car manufacturers because of advances in technology, Beijing and Shanghai earlier this year purchased a total of 1000 electric bus. Replacement of energy, allowing passengers to save up to 40% of the travel costs.

The Government’s attitude is different towards solar energy. As the solar energy price is still higher than traditional energy sources for the Government to support their input will be very huge, so to encourage families to take a long time before the use of solar energy are negative stance. But now, high prices can not stop the Chinese and foreign venture capital companies to invest in the footsteps of solar panels. As in other fields, in the solar energy, China is also a very fast to catch up those.

Although the solar energy in China is still a major part of market share, but by virtue of cost advantages, Chinese firms in the world occupy upstream market. Baoding Yingli New Energy Resources, CEO Miao Liansheng expect official support would allow China’s PV market has become the first in the world.

Clean Coal: China’s green ambitions

No technology can, like the development of “clean coal” as a positive demonstration of China’s green energy ambitions. This technology can help China to reduce carbon wind turbine generators dioxide and polluting gas emissions. China has a striking coal reserves, 80% of its electricity comes from coal-fired power plants, while the United States, compared with 50%. The next few decades, both China and the U.S. developed a number of kinds of new energy sources, coal is still the protagonist of energy supply.

Many energy experts will want to lock in a new use of old technology: the underground gasification of coal – without any extraction, the solid coal into gas. This technology can prevent the leakage of sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides, while separated from the carbon dioxide used to produce bio-diesel algae food, or be forever buried in the ground.

The United States has taken the lead built the first thermal power plant is almost zero emissions, but the power station was due to huge cost, coupled with political reasons, has been abandoned. Last year, China decided to build their own green coal power plant, this plant has been designed to date, most efficient and clean coal power plant, is expected to be the end of 2010 put into use.

Meanwhile, China University of Technology and a research institute jointly developed underground coal gasification technology, has the U.S. dominance in this field to challenge. They have authorized the U.S. companies using this technology in the United States related to the construction of wind power generators facilities, to enter the U.S. market.

“In the U.S., people generally believe that our technology leadership in China for 30 years,” Shell’s ethnic Chinese employees Song Qin said, “We never thought that only the United States to transfer technology to China. Although China has the technology licensed to the United States to use a very rare, but This situation will become increasingly common since. “Last year, China in the field of 17 doctoral graduates, while in other countries, a total of only 2.

The new Austrian company is the largest private green energy companies. The company is located in Langfang, Hebei Province with beautiful environment has attracted many Chinese and foreign engineers. “In the whole of China, R & D position is still low. And compared to Europe and the United States, we still at a relatively immature stage” and the new secondary schools introduced the Austrian chief technology officer, Coombe Road, “so we strongly the introduction of advanced science and technology in Europe and America talent, they can immediately make a contribution to the company. ”

One from the London-based environmental wind generator think-tank analysts believe that China’s are not able to produce in terms of reliability and quality with the “German-made” than products; Yet, this country has been under a lot of reasons to join a global green energy revolution: rapid consumption of limited resources, severe types of pollution.

Furthermore, and Obama, like the leadership in Beijing has seen renewable energy for economic benefits: a new global energy industry in the next half century than any other industries to provide more business opportunities.

Here comes the problem: China’s rise in the green energy sector, what it means for other countries? While the green energy for China, there are many benefits: a growing number of solar cells and electric vehicles would effectively reduce pollution and improve air quality, but also reduce the oil such traditional energy development, to prevent over-exploitation, depletion of resources. However, if China becomes a green energy equipment production centers, low-cost solar panels, wind generators will replace the existing toys and textiles exported to the world.

Western countries, this is probably not good news, they fear that China will take away most of the industrial revolution in energy jobs. Some Western experts believe that even the Chinese recognize that any one country any ability to control this huge market, Western countries still have to step up the Government’s plan to establish research teams, integrate resources, expand the market, and only so can the West and China share green energy industrial development of the “cake.”

“Hebei Baoding’s experience suggests the renewable energy in China, although just become an industry, but in some ways China has played a leadership role and technology export,” the World Wildlife Fund energy analyst Rasmus said, “China is a huge market, it can foster a globally important role in many companies. China Move, the world earthquake or two.”

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