The outline of the 15th Five Year Plan clearly focuses on key areas leading future development, building a comprehensive cultivation system for the future industry chain, and promoting the cultivation of hydrogen energy and nuclear fusion energy as new economic growth points. Currently, China's hydrogen and fusion energy industries are entering an accelerated breakthrough period.

The traditional electrolysis of water for hydrogen production relies heavily on freshwater, which to some extent restricts the large-scale expansion of the green hydrogen industry. In Qingdao, Shandong Province, China's first research project for direct hydrogen production from seawater in a factory with a capacity of 100 kilowatts has successfully solved the global problem of high impurities and strong corrosiveness in seawater after more than a year of research and development, and opened up a new route for hydrogen production without desalination of seawater. Experts point out that the key to direct hydrogen production from seawater lies not only in production, but also in stability. By relying on independently developed new electrode materials and anti-corrosion technology, the related devices can achieve long-term stable operation and synchronously improve hydrogen production efficiency.

Data shows that the total annual production and consumption of hydrogen energy in China has exceeded 36.5 million tons, accounting for 36.6% of the global total production. With continuous technological breakthroughs, the application scenarios of hydrogen energy continue to expand, gradually integrating into people's daily lives from core fields such as industry and transportation.

If the hydrogen energy industry is an important focus of energy transformation at the current stage, then controllable nuclear fusion is the ultimate solution for human future energy. To achieve controllable nuclear fusion, it is necessary to achieve long-term stable confinement of the plasma at temperatures exceeding billions of degrees Celsius. In Hefei Future Science City, the installation of the main unit of the superconducting tokamak device for the combustion plasma experiment is accelerating.

At present, the commercialization of controllable nuclear fusion is accelerating globally, and China has established a full chain innovation system covering basic research, key technology breakthroughs, and engineering verification. During the 15th Five Year Plan period, with the continuous deepening of core technology research and development, China's controllable nuclear fusion will gradually open up the development channel from experimental reactors, demonstration reactors to commercial reactors.

The continuous breakthroughs in core technologies have laid a solid foundation for the large-scale and commercial development of future energy industries such as hydrogen energy and nuclear fusion energy. During the 15th Five Year Plan period, China will continue to improve the policy system for cultivating the entire future industry chain, expand diversified application scenarios, promote the deep integration of future energy technology and the real economy, and accelerate the construction of a new pattern of industrial development with full chain coordination and global layout.Editor/Gong Ziwei