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How China is leading the renewable energy revolution

Cracked earth marks a dried-up area near a wind turbine used to generate electricity at a wind farm in Guazhou, 950km (590 miles) northwest of Lanzhou, Gansu Province September 15, 2013. China will be "flexible" in U.N. talks for a new global climate change deal, but the key to progress is getting rich nations to keep pledges to fund mitigation steps by poorer countries, the country's top climate change official said on November 5, 2013. Picture taken September 15, 2013. REUTERS/Carlos Barria (CHINA - Tags: ENVIRONMENT ENERGY) - RTX150I1

China is at the center of a global energy transformation, driven by the falling cost of renewables. Image: REUTERS/Carlos Barria

Jiang Kejun
Senior researcher, Energy Research Institute of China’s National Development and Reform Commission.
Jonathan Woetzel
Director, McKinsey Global Institute
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