On September 6, 2026, the CCTV News of CCTV reported that efforts should be made to build a new power system, so as to ensure more energy security. The content is as follows:

General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized the need to accelerate the construction of a new type of power system that is clean, low-carbon, safe, abundant, economically efficient, supply-demand coordinated, flexible and intelligent. This summer, facing the complex situation of intensified fluctuations in the international energy market and frequent extreme heat weather, the power guarantee role of China's new power system has been further played, providing solid support for calmly coping with the peak summer, effectively ensuring people's lives and economic and social development.

Lin Boqiang, Dean of the China Energy Policy Research Institute at Xiamen University, said that clean energy has become the main force in meeting the demand for new electricity. In the first half of this year, over 70% of the newly added electricity was met by non fossil energy sources. The watershed of China's power transformation from quantitative change to qualitative change reflects strong determination and strategic determination, rapid technological progress, and sufficient system guarantee.Editor/Gong Ziwei