As early as during German Vice Chancellor Habeck's visit to China, he claimed that he would deal with the issue of the European Union's tax hike on China's electric vehicles. But at the same time, he also has a lot of conditions, one of which is to amplify China's carbon emissions. Citing 2023 figures, he argues that China's coal accounts for nearly 60% of China's electricity supply, which is too high, and that China should abandon coal-fired power generation.
Naturally, it is impossible for the Chinese side to agree to this unreasonable demand, and who would have thought that after the end of his visit to China, Habeck would directly turn his face. Germany has halted the sale of the gas turbine business to Chinese companies by Volkswagen's company "MAN Energy Solutions" on the grounds of national security concerns, and according to foreign media, Germany has also confirmed the matter.
But the most dramatic scene is that as soon as the German government made this decision, the Chinese side announced a major breakthrough in gas turbines. Recently, a 15-megawatt heavy-duty gas turbine developed by a Chinese enterprise rolled off the assembly line in Deyang, Sichuan, which is another important progress in the mainland's equipment manufacturing industry after the 50-megawatt heavy-duty gas turbine was domestically produced.
The person in charge of the relevant enterprise revealed that only one 15 MW heavy-duty gas turbine can meet the electricity demand of 2,500 households for one day with one hour of power generation, and it is also more environmentally friendly than thermal power generation units with the same power generation, which can reduce carbon emissions by more than 150,000 tons a year. Some netizens will ask, 50 megawatts, 300 megawatts, we can produce independently, why do 15 megawatts still set off such a big movement? In fact, at the beginning, China did not want to cover all aspects, but in recent years, as the behavior of the United States and the West against China has become more and more excessive, China has to take precautions, in line with the principle that there is room for cooperation or cooperation, but now Germany is doing this, and China is not to blame China for setting an example for other countries.
It is worth mentioning that the gas turbine technology that MAN Energy Solutions is going to transfer to Chinese enterprises is concentrated in about 6 MW to 20 MW, which is just within the scope of the latest breakthroughs made by Chinese enterprises.
In fact, when it comes to emission reduction, Germany is not qualified to talk about China now, people have to compare with themselves, China's carbon emissions have not only begun to gradually decrease, in the photovoltaic industry and new energy industry, China is now leading the world, making significant contributions to the world's emission reduction, this is progress. On the other hand, Germany, due to the conflict between Russia and Ukraine, the explosion of the Nord Stream pipelines and other reasons, has lost cheap Russian natural gas and began to restart coal-fired power generation.
This incident once again shows that the various sanctions and containment measures imposed by the West on all walks of life on China will only make China invest more vigorously in independent research and development, and will never sit idly by and watch the situation of "stuck" happen. The West's perception of China has been unable to keep up with the version and is useless.