Wind Power: Injecting Green Momentum into New Quality Productivity

New quality productivity is the latest achievement of Marxist productivity theory formed in practice, and it is an innovation and development integrated into China's national conditions. The emergence of new quality productivity is driven by technological revolutionary breakthroughs, innovative allocation of production factors, and deep industrial transformation and upgrading. Its basic connotation is the leap of laborers, labor materials, labor objects, and their optimized combinations, and its core symbol is the significant improvement of total factor productivity. Its characteristic is innovation, the key is quality, and its essence is advanced productivity. New quality productivity is an inherent requirement and important focus for promoting high-quality development, an innovative driving force around new industrialization and building a socialist strong country, and a green productivity that accelerates the green transformation of development mode and helps achieve the "dual carbon" goal.

Wind Power - Empowering with 'New' Energy

The green development background of new quality productivity needs to be polished with clean energy. The "Four Revolutions and One Cooperation" energy security strategy has been proposed for ten years. Under the requirements of the overall national security concept, China's wind power has stood out and achieved fruitful technological innovation. Environmentally friendly smart wind power, with intelligence as its core and environmental friendliness as its foundation, not only focuses on efficiency but also seamlessly integrates into the natural ecology. It is a green driving force for implementing the requirements of new quality productivity development.

Firstly, wind power has a solid foundation for development. China has built the world's largest wind power supply system, and its equipment manufacturing level has been leading the world for many years. As of the end of 2023, China's installed capacity of wind power is 440 million kilowatts, accounting for 15% of the total installed capacity of power generation, including 400 million kilowatts of onshore wind power and 37.29 million kilowatts of offshore wind power.

Secondly, wind power is accelerating innovation in its development. Wind power is a typical technology intensive industry, and China has formed a core technology cluster for wind power manufacturing in the technology system consisting of new material research and development, lubricant research and development, dynamic analysis technology, intelligent manufacturing technology, etc. At the same time, smart wind power technology continues to innovate and integrate intelligent technologies such as the Internet of Things, big data, and communication technology, greatly improving operation and maintenance efficiency and stability.

Thirdly, wind power continues to optimize the allocation of production factors. On the technical level, the digitization and intelligent transformation of smart wind power support centralized monitoring and management, unmanned operation, and intelligent scheduling of wind farms. This not only cultivates new types of workers and enables better allocation of production and human resources, but also responds more friendly to the power grid and enhances the resource allocation capability of the power system. At the industrial level, the development model of "wind power+" promotes the multiple utilization of resources according to local conditions and the sharing of infrastructure, enabling better allocation of production factors, further improving production efficiency, and driving the synchronous development of related industries.

Wind power - moving towards' quality '

In the face of opportunities and challenges, wind power, as a key renewable energy and the main component of the new power system, will play multiple roles in implementing the requirements of new quality productivity, including energy security, innovation leadership, industrial demonstration, industrial integration, and open cooperation.

Marching confidently into the magnificent mountains and seas. China's wind power manufacturing has repeatedly broken records for tower height, blade length, and impeller diameter. The progress of large-scale wind turbines continues to accelerate, and wind farm construction is steadily expanding towards the low wind speed areas in the central and eastern regions; Significant breakthroughs have been made in cutting-edge technologies such as mountain wind power, high-altitude wind power, and floating wind power, enabling wind power to have stronger adaptability to harsh environments and helping wind power to reach high mountains, rivers, deep waters, and distant shores; Intelligentization realizes intelligent management, environmental friendliness helps promote harmonious development, and the "Thousand Villages and Ten Thousand Villages Wind Control Action" provides a broader space for wind power development, shaping more beautiful and prosperous rural areas.

Optimize and strengthen the new industrialization. From wind turbine design, project development and construction, power transmission and grid connection, system operation and maintenance, and wind turbine recycling and utilization, the low-carbon development of the entire lifecycle of the wind power industry chain has formed a new industrial green transformation in the development of digitalization. The construction of the wind power industry ecosystem has formed multiple business models, such as wind and solar power bases, comprehensive smart zero carbon power plants, zero carbon parks, and offshore wind power industry parks, which have enhanced the synergistic effects between production factors and gained more external markets and discourse power for the new industrialization.

Friendly rendering of beautiful Chinese environmental colors. Wind power is a product of industrial development. As an industrial landscape, it shines in harmony with the environment, achieving deep integration and coordinated development of ecology, culture, industry, and industry, allowing people to experience a sense of happiness and gain from it. In development, construction, and operation, we adhere to ecological priority, protect biodiversity, and achieve ecological friendliness; Diversified noise reduction methods and environmental protection measures to minimize human impact and achieve natural friendliness; Integrating humanistic concepts as a link between energy and humanity, technology and emotions, to achieve cultural friendliness.

Firmly implement the original intention of green industry. Wind power is currently the lowest carbon emitting power generation technology, with carbon emissions only 1% of thermal power, and outstanding green advantages throughout its entire lifecycle. Wind power is also the lowest cost power generation method, and the cost of onshore wind power is expected to drop to 0.1 yuan per kilowatt hour by 2025. Its development injects green value into industrial parks and products, becoming a green label and value engine for China's manufacturing industry to enter the international market.

Continuously expanding high-level open cooperation. China adheres to the concept of a community with a shared future for mankind, actively plays the role of a major country in the green transformation of world energy, and the "the Belt and Road" energy cooperation has achieved remarkable results. Facing the overall demand for global wind power development, China, as the world's largest wind power equipment manufacturing base, contributes 60% of the world's wind power equipment. China has outstanding advantages in wind power technology and location, and will continue to participate deeply in global energy cooperation, injecting new momentum into the global energy transformation and development.

Currently, there has been no major change in the past century accelerating its evolution, and artificial intelligence has made substantial breakthroughs, gradually revealing its disruptive impact on the original industrial form. New quality productivity is a practical achievement of technological development driving productivity leap, and it is a green engine for maintaining high-quality development in the wave of digital economy. In the face of changes and opportunities of the times, environment-friendly smart wind power should innovate, integrate and develop advantages of learning, growth, openness, heterogeneity and friendliness. In the process of digital thinking mode promoting Chinese path to modernization, it should take advantage of the long wind to break the waves. (The author is Wu Zhiquan, Secretary of the Party Committee and Chairman of State Power Investment Yunnan International Power Investment Co., Ltd.)

Information source: People's Daily Online