How China Plans to Win the Future of Energy

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 🙄

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

My father lost his factory, after 3 upgrades in the past 15 years, to keep up with the ever changing standards for emission. In the end, after so much money spent, the factory was forced to close down by the local government, due to it has failed the new policy standards, and the technology required for upgrading was way too much. 500 works lost their jobs. It hit my family finically, not in a small way. But when I spoke to my father, although he think the way to push out the policy could be more transparent and standardized, he also shows full support of the central government's goal, for the sake of the environment. Now, each year, my city is greener, sky is bluer, the street is cleaner, the water is purer. I wish one day the environment will return to what it once was, in my childhood memory.

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.

So the US, which population size is 4 times smaller than China, and outsources most of its manufacturing to east asia, only used 35% less energy than China? Interesting video, but I do not understand why you highlighting this.

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

China 4 times the population of US, plus many US consumed products manufactured in China. With all that and only 35% more energy consumption than US. If you take US + EU (combined population still lower than China), you get an entirely different picture.