Clean energy now a record share of China’s GDP, with minimal emissions

Solar energy, electric vehicles and batteries have played a key role in the spectacular growth of Chinese clean technologies. Clean energy technologies contributed more than 10 per cent of China's economic growth in 2024 for the first time in history, with sales and investments worth 13.6 trillion yuan ($1.9 trillion). Clean energy sectors boosted a quarter of China's gross domestic product (GDP) growth in 2024 and outnumbered real estate sales …

Clean energy now a record share of China’s GDP, with minimal emissions

Amid concern that cleantech production's carbon output may offset the country's renewables gains, a new analysis finds that the “big three” products – EVs, batteries and solar – only made up 0.9 percentage points of 2024 emissions growth.