On December 15, the reporter learned from the 2026 National Energy Work Conference that the electricity consumption of the entire nation is expected to exceed 10 trillion kilowatt-hours for the first time in 2025. “This is the first of its kind in the world.” Jiang Debin, deputy director of the Statistics and Mathematics Department of the China Electric Power Enterprise Federation, said that this not only marks that China's electricity consumption has steadily ranked first in the world, but has also become an important milestone in China's economic and energy development process.

On December 15, the reporter learned from the 2026 National Energy Work Conference that the electricity consumption of the entire nation is expected to exceed 10 trillion kilowatt-hours for the first time in 2025. “This is the first of its kind in the world.” Jiang Debin, deputy director of the Statistics and Mathematics Department of the China Electric Power Enterprise Federation, said that this not only marks that China's electricity consumption has steadily ranked first in the world, but has also become an important milestone in China's economic and energy development process.