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Lanzhou, August 14 (Xinhua) -- Ma Wei, director of the Jiuquan Energy Bureau of Gansu Province, said on August 14 that in recent years, Jiuquan has focused on six major industrial chains: wind power, photovoltaics, solar thermal, energy storage, hydrogen energy, and smart grids, and has vigorously implemented the extension, supplementation, and strengthening of the industrial chain. The equipment manufacturing industrial chain has been gradually improved, and the industrial cluster effect has initially emerged. Jiuquan has become the largest onshore wind power equipment manufacturing base in the country.

On the same day, the Gansu Provincial Government Information Office held a series of press conferences on the theme of "High-quality Economic Development in the First Half of 2024". Ma Wei said that Jiuquan City has fully realized localized production of the three major systems of wind power mainframes, blades, and towers, with an annual production capacity of 2,600 mainframes, 2,450 sets of blades, and 2,700 sets of towers, with an annual installed capacity of more than 20 gigawatts. The regional headquarters of many top-ranked complete machine manufacturers in the national wind power industry have all landed, and a number of core components and supporting projects have been completed and put into production.

Gansu is an important comprehensive energy base in China, and its exploitable wind and solar energy are among the highest in the country. In recent years, Gansu has vigorously developed new energy and created a new energy equipment manufacturing industry cluster worth hundreds of billions of yuan. As the main battlefield for the development of new energy industry in Gansu Province, Jiuquan is building a national new energy base.

The picture shows the customs officers of Jiuquan Customs under Lanzhou Customs checking the exported new energy equipment. (Data picture) Photo by Ding Mancang

At present, photovoltaic equipment has been "strung into a chain" within the urban area of ​​Jiuquan, realizing the connection of the entire upstream and downstream industrial chain, with an annual production capacity of more than 10 gigawatts; the energy storage industry has "turned points into beads", and energy storage demonstration projects with different technical paths such as lithium iron phosphate batteries, all-vanadium liquid flow batteries, sodium ion batteries, air compression energy storage, and gravity energy storage have all gathered in Jiuquan; solar thermal power generation has "expanded with the momentum", and 4 national solar thermal experimental demonstration projects have been built, and 5 "solar thermal + wind and photovoltaic" demonstration projects have been constructed.

Ma Wei said that the Yumen Oilfield photovoltaic hydrogen production project, a benchmark project of the hydrogen energy industry chain in Gansu Province, was completed and put into production, and the bipolar plate and electrode catalyst production lines were completed and put into production this year, filling the gap in the field of hydrogen energy equipment manufacturing in the northwest region. The construction of two 750 kV transmission and transformation projects in Yumen and Jinta in the city has started, and the system architecture of 750 kV and 330 kV booster stations has become stronger, providing a solid power grid foundation for the large-scale development of high-proportion new energy.

As the birthplace of China's petroleum and nuclear industries, Jiuquan is now an important national new energy base and energy strategic channel. In recent years, Jiuquan City has continuously expanded its new energy industry and actively promoted Chinese wisdom, Chinese technology, and Chinese solutions to the countries that jointly build the "Belt and Road".

Ma Wei said that in recent years, the resilience and security level of Jiuquan's new energy equipment manufacturing industry chain and supply chain have been continuously improved. The output value of the new energy equipment manufacturing industry has increased from 7.8 billion yuan in 2021 to 20.5 billion yuan in 2023. 58 new energy equipment manufacturing enterprises above designated size have been attracted to settle down, with a total investment of 45.2 billion yuan. (End)