{"id":76229,"date":"2026-02-05T09:01:14","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T00:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/feb\/05\/china-green-energy-sector-investment-growth"},"modified":"2026-02-05T09:01:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T00:01:14","slug":"green-energy-sector-drove-more-than-90-of-chinas-investment-growth-last-year-analysis-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=76229","title":{"rendered":"Green energy sector drove more than 90% of China\u2019s investment growth last year, analysis finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Industry bigger than all but seven world economies, and accounts for more than third of China\u2019s economic growth<\/p>\n<p>China\u2019s clean energy industries drove more than 90% of the country\u2019s investment growth last year, making the sectors bigger than all but seven of the world\u2019s economies, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.carbonbrief.org\/analysis-clean-energy-drove-more-than-a-third-of-chinasgdp-growth-in-2025\/\">a new analysis has shown<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For the second time in three years, the report showed the manufacture, installation and export of batteries, electric cars, solar, wind and related technologies accounted for more than a third of China\u2019s economic growth.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/feb\/05\/china-green-energy-sector-investment-growth\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Industry bigger than all but seven world economies, and accounts for more than third of China\u2019s economic growthChina\u2019s clean energy industries drove more than 90% of the country\u2019s investment growth last year, making the sectors bigger than all but seve&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":431,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,50,2623,493,65,303,564,659],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-electric-hybrid-and-low-emission-cars","category-energy","category-environment","category-ethical-and-green-living","category-greenhouse-gas-emissions","category-renewable-energy"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/431"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76229"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76246,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76229\/revisions\/76246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}