Coordinate efforts to hit climate goals: Xi

Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, has called for coordinated efforts in cutting carbon emissions and promoting the green transition of socioeconomic development, saying that China must resolutely curb its consumption of fossil energy.

Speaking at a group study session of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee on Jan 24, Xi said China must give greater priority to the development of new energy and clean energy and accelerate the development of large-scale and profitable wind power, solar power, biomass energy, geothermal energy, ocean energy and hydrogen power.

With China already committing itself to peaking carbon emissions before 2030 and attaining carbon neutrality before 2060, Xi said attaining the climate targets is something China must do, instead of being pushed by others.