Science magazine has declared the explosive growth of renewables as the Breakthrough of the Year in 2025, with China leading this transformation of unprecedented scale and speed.1][2][3][4] Renewables, particularly solar and wind power, have surpassed coal as a source of electricity worldwide, and in the first half of the year, their growth covered the entire increase in global electricity consumption.[2][3] By 2024, China had installed new solar and wind capacity equivalent to about 100 nuclear power plants, and the pace accelerated further in early 2025.5][6] The country has built dozens of ultra-high-voltage power lines to transmit power from deserts in the west to cities in the east, including a solar farm on the Tibetan plateau greater than 400 km².[3][5] China's green technology exports reached nearly $180 billion in 2024, making renewables available to countries in Europe and the Global South.[2][3] The growth of renewables has halted the rise of China's greenhouse gas emissions and brought the global carbon peak closer.