China is intensifying its efforts to be a world leader in terms of producing solar and wind energy. (Photo : Getty Images)
The solar power project is estimated to span an area of 27 square kilometers of solar panels and has a total cost of 6 billion yuan. The plantation will produce 850MW of power and enough to supply up to 200,000 households.
To the right of the plantation, a billboard will be erected bearing the slogan: "Promote green development! Develop clean energy!"
Silicon cells tilting upward will be placed in the highland area. The energy produced by the solar farm will be the biggest amount ever produced from the sun.
Gu Bin, one of the engineers responsible for building the Longyangxia Dam Solar Park in the western province of Qinghai, said, "It's big! Yeah! Big!"
Many are excited about the project as China needs to decrease its dependency on coal burning. The country is the world's biggest pollution emitter.
Xie Xiaoping, the chairman of Huanghe Hydropower Development and the park's contractor, said, "The development of clean energy is very important if we are to keep the promises made in the Paris agreement."
According to a report published by the United Nations Energy Program (U.N.E.P.), "Renewable energy set new records in 2015 for dollar investment, the amount of new capacity added and the relative importance of developing countries in that growth."
The U.N.E.P. noted that the increase in investment in green energy is large because of China, which has put massive capital outlay in hydroelectric power in 2015.
"The developing world including China, India, and Brazil committed a total of $156 billion, up 19 percent in 2014, while developed countries invested $130 billion, down 8 percent. A large element in this turnaround was China, which lifted its investment by 17 percent to $102.9 billion, or 36 percent of the world total," the report stated.
