China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and seven other ministries issued the 15th Five-Year Plan for Enhancing Industrial Basic Capabilities, calling for strengthened R&D on basic products in key industrial chains. The plan coordinates high-quality development actions for manufacturing chains and an industrial-base reconstruction programme, prioritizes a set of specialized foundational products tightly coupled with finished systems, and mandates upstream-downstream industry coll

China's National Energy Administration issued implementation opinions to advance integration of coal-fired power and renewables, requiring that integration must not reduce coal units' ability to provide system support and flexibility. Renewable capacity in integration projects must be sized to match the enhanced regulating capability delivered by coal-unit upgrades. The guidance calls for stronger coal decarbonization to materially improve decarbonization quality and efficiency, measures to boost renewable offtake and cut wind/solar curtailment, and support for diversified innovation and pilot deployments of integration technologies. Integration models should be chosen by local conditions; by the end of the 15th Five-Year Plan the NEA expects mature application of integration scenarios and significant reductions in annual carbon emissions versus pre-retrofit/pre-construction levels.

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