The Action Plan sets out China’s concrete measures for achieving carbon peaking during the Fifteenth Five-Year Plan period (2026-2030). It integrates green and low-carbon development across the economy, while coordinating energy security and economic growth. By 2030, carbon dioxide emissions per unit of GDP are to fall by 17% from 2025 levels, non-fossil energy is to reach 25% of total energy consumption, and the national carbon-peaking target is to be achieved.
The Plan enumerates sectoral measures and action programmes. Key energy-sector measures include large-scale development of non-fossil energy (wind, solar, hydro, nuclear and other clean sources) with quantitative capacity goals, grid and interregional transmission upgrades, storage expansion, demand-side response and virtual power plant development. It requires coal consumption substitution and low-carbon upgrades in coal power and coal-chemical industries, encourages green fuels and prudent natural gas use, and promotes electrification. For industry, buildings, transport and computing (data centres), the Plan mandates efficiency upgrades, technological renovation, zero-carbon parks/factories targets , and promotion of circular economy measures and materials recycling. Implementation, governance and support measures are specified: strengthening legal and standards frameworks, improving carbon emissions statistics and accounting systems, technology R&D and talent development, establishing a national low-carbon transition fund, fiscal and tax incentives, and market mechanisms including expansion of the carbon trading market and green certificate systems. Provincial implementation, public participation, corporate responsibility and international cooperation are also required.