China’s net-zero ambitions: the next Five-Year Plan will be critical for an accelerated energy transition

In recent decades, China has moved to the centre of the global economy. Thanks to its economic reforms, the country pulled hundreds of millions of people out of poverty and witnessed an unprecedented level of urbanization and economic activity. From European luxury companies selling to affluent Chinese consumers to Latin American copper mines supplying material for its infrastructure, China’s modern economic expansion has been a major driver of global growth.