China will strive to raise the proportion of renewable energy in its energy pie, possibly to 10% in 2020, said recently XU Dingming, Director of Energy Bureau, a part of the State Development andReform Commission.

According to XU, while striving to protect both ecology and environment, China will develop small hydropower over a number of river basins, including Jinsha River, Yalong River, Dadu River, Lancang River, and Nujiang River. The scale of small hydropower will reach 180 million kilowatts in 2010, and 300 million kilowatts in 2020. By that time, hydropower will take up 30% of the nation's power generation capacity.

In 2005, China has established more than 60 windmills, with a capacity of 1.26 million kilowatts. In the coming years, China plans to construct a number of large wind power plants, which will eventually raise the installed capacity to 5 million kilowatts in 2010, and 30 million kilowatts in 2020.

As of the end of 2005, China has completed 1500 large methane gas projects, with an annual output of 1.5 billion cubic meters of methane gas. China has also established a well–functioned service system for the methane gas industry. Facing a strong market call, Chinese industries will upscale the production of biofuel to 10 million tons in 2020.

In the area of solar energy, China has developed an annual capacity of 70,000 kilowatts, mostly in remote areas and some applicable sectors.