This decade, look at China's infrastructure

To ensure energy security, China has accelerated the implementation of a new strategy for energy security, focused on building a clean, low-carbon, safe and efficient energy system, and significantly improved its ability to ensure energy supply.

By the end of 2021, China's total installed power generation capacity will reach 2.38 billion kW, double that of 2012, with an average annual growth rate of 8.4%. China's power transmission lines with 220 kV or above reached 843,000 kilometers, and the capacity of substation equipment reached 4.94 billion kVA, 1.7 times and 2.2 times that of 2012, respectively. The length of oil and gas pipelines in China reached 180,000 kilometers, double that of 2012. The construction of trans-provincial and trans-regional energy transmission channels has been strengthened.

On the premise of ensuring a secure and reliable supply of energy, China continues to promote the clean and low-carbon transformation of its energy structure. At present, the installed capacity of renewable energy power generation in China has exceeded 1 billion kilowatts, and the total installed capacity of green electricity ranks first in the world. By the end of 2021, the total installed capacity of wind power PV connected to the grid was 635 million kilowatts, nearly 90 times that of 2012.

Livelihood Project: Changing everyone's life

Ten years ago, in some places such as Handan and Xingtai, Hebei Province, the problem of excessive fluorine in rural drinking water was still very serious, and brackish water and high-fluorine water were the heart of many people. By the end of 2014, the first phase of the Middle route of the South-to-North Water Diversion Project was fully operational. From the Danjiangkou Reservoir, located in the middle and upper reaches of the Han River, the clear water flows thousands of kilometers north, bringing rain to a region that is desperately short of water.

As one of the largest water diversion projects in the world, the South-to-North Water Diversion Project has made use of open channels, aqueducts, tunnels and other technologies in its construction, creating the world's largest water transport aqueduct and the world's largest modern pumping station group. Since its opening, Nanshui has become the main water source for more than 140 million people in more than 280 counties (cities and districts) in more than 40 large and medium-sized cities in Beijing, Tianjin, Hebei, Henan and other places.

According to statistics, as of May 13 this year, the total amount of water transferred by the eastern and middle routes of the South-to-North Water diversion project had reached 53.1 billion cubic meters, 8.5 billion cubic meters of ecological water replenishment had been implemented for more than 50 rivers along the route, and more than 5 billion cubic meters of groundwater had been reduced in the water receiving areas. Now, families in the receiving areas of the South-to-North Water Diversion Project can drink water from the Yangtze River thousands of miles away as soon as they turn on the tap.

Other livelihood infrastructure projects, although not as large as the South-to-North Water Diversion project, have also improved people's lives.

Since 2018, the Party Central Committee has deployed actions to improve the rural living environment, promote the rural "toilet revolution", and improve rural living facilities. By the end of 2021, the penetration rate of sanitary toilets in rural areas of the country has exceeded 70%, of which the penetration rate of sanitary toilets in rural areas with basic conditions such as eastern regions, urban suburbs in central and western regions has exceeded 90%. In addition, at present, the proportion of natural villages in the country that collect and transport rural domestic waste has remained stable at more than 90%.

Digital communication: Seize the commanding heights of future development

With the network power, broadband China, "Internet +" action, this decade, China's information and communication industry to achieve iterative leapfrog, built the world's largest, leading technology network infrastructure. Among them, the optical fiber network access bandwidth has achieved exponential growth from 10 megabits to 100 megabits and then to gigabit, and the mobile network has achieved a leap from "3G breakthrough" to "4G synchronization" to "5G leadership".

In 2012, the number of mobile phone base stations in the country just exceeded 2 million, and by the end of 2021, the number reached 9.96 million. At present, China has historically achieved "broadband access to every village" in the country's administrative villages, the average download rate of broadband networks has increased by nearly 40 times, the scale of 4G base stations accounts for more than half of the world's total, and the construction of 5G base stations has reached 1.615 million.

The information infrastructure throughout the country has provided strong support for the construction of digital society and digital government. In the past, people had to go to one or more departments to do business, and sometimes they had to go back and forth several times. Now, many places have implemented digital government services, which not only saves the time and energy of the people, but also realizes the process transparency of public services and data sharing.