In recent years, Chamdo City in the Tibet Autonomous Region has actively advanced the construction of three 10-million-kilowatt clean energy bases in the upper Jinsha River, upper Lancang River, and southeastern Tibet (Yucha), alongside the eastern Tibet clean energy development zone, propelling the clean energy industry onto a fast track of growth.
Chamdo boasts abundant clean energy resources, with the city's combined technical developable capacity for hydropower, wind, and solar energy exceeding 400 million kilowatts. The total scale of planned key development projects exceeds 150 million kilowatts.
During the 15th Five-Year Plan period, cumulative investment in Chamdo's clean energy development is projected to reach 300 billion yuan, which will serve as the primary engine driving local growth. This investment is expected to bolster the extension and strengthening of upstream and downstream industrial chains, including clean energy equipment manufacturing and building materials, while achieving integrated development through a "Clean Energy Plus" strategy.
This year, Chamdo has conducted special research and made dedicated arrangements for the development of its clean energy industry. The city introduced 20 measures to accelerate the sector's growth, covering six key areas: establishing a scientific development framework, enhancing energy security capabilities, promoting technological innovation and application, accelerating chain extension and reinforcement, implementing the "Clean Energy Plus" initiative, and strengthening factor service guarantees. These measures aim to remove bottlenecks, difficulties, and pain points hindering industrial development.
Simultaneously, Chamdo has refined its coordination and promotion mechanism for clean energy development and construction, issuing service guidelines for project coordination. These efforts have accelerated the large-scale development of new energy capacity. Since the beginning of this year, the city's installed clean energy power capacity—both operational and under construction—has risen to 21.63 million kilowatts.
According to Lu Fang, Party Secretary and Deputy Director of the Chamdo Energy Bureau, the city aims to achieve an installed clean energy capacity of 123 million kilowatts by 2035, with annual power generation reaching 240 billion kilowatt-hours. This would establish Chamdo as a key gateway and distribution hub for "Tibetan power transmission to other regions," fully completing the national clean energy base in eastern Tibet.
Li Shuguo, Deputy Secretary of the Chamdo Municipal Committee and Executive Vice Mayor, stated that to drive chain extension and reinforcement through clean energy development, the city has attracted companies such as CRRC Zhuzhou Institute, TBEA, Dongfang Electric, and Sinohydro Bureau 4 to establish modern clean energy equipment manufacturing operations on the plateau. Furthermore, the city is actively cultivating and expanding energy enterprises; among its 22 above-scale industrial enterprises, power generation companies account for 41%.