On March 13, the "Outline of the 15th Five-Year Plan for National Economic and Social Development of the People's Republic of China" was officially released. Chapter 7, on building a modern infrastructure system, clearly states the need to strengthen the construction of new energy infrastructure. 

The Outline points out that it is necessary to deeply implement a new energy security strategy, accelerate the development of a clean, low-carbon, safe, and efficient new energy system, and build a strong energy country. It calls for promoting the safe, reliable, and orderly replacement of fossil fuels with non-fossil energy sources, adhering to a multi-energy approach including wind, solar, hydro, and nuclear power, and implementing a ten-year action plan to multiply non-fossil energy.

Coordinate local consumption and external transmission, build clean energy bases such as wind and photovoltaic in the 'Three North' regions, integrated water, wind, and photovoltaic in the Southwest, coastal nuclear power, and offshore wind power, strengthen the nearby development and utilization of distributed energy, plan the development of green hydrogen, ammonia, and methanol, and actively promote solar thermal power generation and geothermal energy utilization.  

Strengthen the clean and efficient use of fossil energy, promote the renovation and upgrading of coal-fired power, and replace bulk coal. Focus on building a new type of power system, comprehensively improve the complementarity, mutual support, and safety resilience of the power system, optimize the national power flow and cross-regional channel layout, accelerate the construction of smart grids, improve urban and rural distribution networks, scientifically plan pumped storage, and vigorously develop new types of energy storage. Increase the electrification level of terminal energy consumption and promote green and low-carbon energy consumption. Basically establish a nationwide unified power market system and improve the operation dispatch mechanism for oil and gas as a 'nationwide network.'  

Compared with the nine major clean energy bases in the 14th Five-Year Plan, the number of clean energy bases in the 15th Five-Year Plan increased to 10, including the addition of the Southeastern Tibet River Basin water, wind, and photovoltaic base and the Upper Lancang River water, wind, and photovoltaic base, while the Lower Jinsha River water, wind, and photovoltaic base was removed. The specific comparison is as follows:

Image source: Outline of the 15th Five-Year Plan for National Economic and Social Development of the People's Republic of China

Image source: Outline of the 14th Five-Year Plan for National Economic and Social Development of the People's Republic of China and the Vision 2035 Goals