On July 27, the State Council Information Office held a press conference on "accelerating the construction of an energy power and fully ensuring energy security". Zhang Jianhua, director of the national energy administration, said that since the new energy security strategy was put forward, the energy front has unswervingly promoted the energy revolution, the construction of an energy power has been further promoted, and the ability to ensure energy security has been further improved, providing strong support for the sustained and healthy development of the economy and society. From the perspective of energy consumption, the pace of clean and low-carbon energy transformation has accelerated. Data show that since 2014, China's energy consumption per unit of GDP has decreased by 20%, supporting 6.2% of national economic growth with an average annual energy consumption growth of about 2.9%. The energy consumption structure was significantly optimized, and the proportion of coal consumption fell from 65.8% in 2014 to 56% in 2021, with an average annual decline of 1.4 percentage points, the fastest decline in history; The proportion of clean energy consumption increased from 16.9% to 25.5% over the same period, accounting for more than 60% of the increase in energy consumption. At the same time, the energy supply capacity and quality have been significantly improved. According to statistics, China's independent energy security capacity remains at more than 80%, the installed capacity of full-scale power generation exceeds 2.4 billion kw, and the per capita installed capacity of electricity has increased from 1 kW in 2014 to 1.7 kW. In 2021, China's coal output reached 4.13 billion tons, and the capacity of large-scale coal mines accounted for more than 70% of the country's total capacity; The installed capacity of renewable energy power generation has historically exceeded 1.1 billion kw, and the power generation capacity has reached 2.49 trillion kwh, accounting for 29.9% of the electricity consumption of the whole society; Crude oil production has rebounded for three consecutive years, and natural gas production has increased by more than 10billion cubic meters for five consecutive years. In terms of energy technology innovation, China has established a complete clean energy equipment manufacturing industry chain, successfully developed and manufactured the world's largest single unit capacity of 1million kW hydropower units, has the manufacturing capacity of a full series of wind turbines with a maximum single unit capacity of 10 MW, and the conversion efficiency of photovoltaic cells has repeatedly set new world records. In addition, the reform of energy system and mechanism has been steadily promoted, and major breakthroughs have been made in the reform of power system. In 2021, the national market-oriented trading electricity consumption was 3.8 trillion kwh, accounting for 45.5% of the total social electricity consumption. At present, affected by the COVID-19 and the international situation, the global energy supply is tight, and how to ensure the safe and reliable supply of energy has attracted much attention. In response, Li Fulong, director of the development planning department of the national energy administration, said that since this year, the energy industry has continued to increase effective investment in the energy sector, strengthen the construction of the energy production, supply, storage and marketing system, and take multiple measures to increase energy supply capacity. On the whole, the energy supply guarantee in the first half of the year was strong and effective. It is reported that in the first half of the year, the investment in major energy projects increased by 15.9% year-on-year. Hydropower, wind power and solar power generation increased rapidly, increasing by 20.3%, 7.8% and 13.5% respectively compared with the same period last year. The output of crude oil and natural gas increased by 4% and 4.9% year-on-year respectively. Raw coal output increased by 11% year-on-year. By the end of June, the inventory of power coal in the national unified dispatching power plant had exceeded 170 million tons, with a year-on-year increase of 51.7%. As for the situation of energy supply guarantee in the second half of the year, Li Fulong said that with the implementation of various measures to stabilize growth and take effect, it is expected that energy consumption will continue to grow, and the growth rate will be accelerated compared with the first half of the year. After entering the winter heating period, the demand for electricity, coal and natural gas will further increase. "The energy industry has formulated and implemented relevant security plans in advance to strengthen energy supply capacity and ensure stable energy supply in the second half of the year." Li Fulong said. (jiwenhui) (Xinhua News Agency)