Workers of PowerChina Jiangxi Hydropower Engineering Bureau Co., Ltd. are hoisting a wind turbine window at the construction site of the second phase of Henglishan Wind Farm in Ruichang City, Jiangxi Province, on December 19, 2024. 

As a responsible major developing country, China was one of the first countries to sign the Paris Agreement, which represents the general direction of the world’s transition toward green and low-carbon development. Over the years since then, the country has actively advanced its efforts in building ecological civilization, and proactively implemented the principle of innovative, coordinated, green, open, and shared development, pushing for a comprehensive green transition of its society and economy amid high-quality development. 

In this issue’s Special Report, we share with our readers some exemplary cases of green development. For example, in Shanxi, China’s leading coal-mining province, green power is feeding into the national grid at the national demonstration base of advanced photovoltaic technology, heralding an era of cleaner and more sustainable energy. Meanwhile, in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (GBA), a clean, low-carbon, safe, and efficient energy supply system is now under construction, which is a priority in the region’s outline development plan. 

Fueled by the pursuit of sustainable development alongside economic growth, China is shifting from a model championing GDP growth to the one which emphasizes efficiency, consumer welfare and protection, climate change mitigation, and environmental protection, blazing a Chinese path in the transformation from an industrial civilization to an ecological civilization.