The National Development and Reform Commission issued a message on the 1st, stating that the National Development and Reform Commission, the National Energy Administration, and the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs jointly launched the "Thousand Towns and Ten Thousand Villages Harnessing the Wind Campaign", proposing that during the 14th Five-Year Plan period, a batch of local wind power projects will be built in villages in rural areas of counties (cities, districts, and banners) with appropriate conditions.

The Wind Farm Operation clarified that the built wind power projects should not exceed 20 megawatts in each administrative village in principle. At the same time, it explores the formation of a new model of wind power investment construction with "village-enterprise cooperation" and a new mechanism of distributing income of "joint construction and sharing", promoting the establishment of a new pattern of wind power development and utilization with "wind power in the village, collective income increase, and villagers benefit".

Actions follow the basic principles of acting locally, making overall plans, and ensuring that both villages and enterprises cooperate for the good of the people. It also follows an ecological priority and an integrated development principle. Based on the rural wind energy and scattered idle land resources in various localities, it combines the development of the collective village economy, takes the village as the unit, and focuses on village-enterprise cooperation. The goal is shared income, and the use of land and environmental protection policies are the prerequisites.

In terms of policy support, the plan of action is clear: within the premise of conforming to the national territorial spatial planning, not involving permanent basic farmland, ecological protection red lines, nature reserves and national desertification land closure and protection zone, fully utilize the scattered non-arable land in rural areas and handle the land use of wind power projects under the “10,000 villages and towns controlling the wind” campaign in accordance with the law.

According to reports, wind energy resources in rural areas of China are rich and widely distributed. Making full use of scattered land in rural areas and promoting the local and nearby development and utilization of wind power according to local conditions is of great significance to strengthening the village collective economy, assisting rural revitalization, promoting the green and low-carbon transformation of rural energy, and achieving carbon peak and carbon neutrality. (Yan Fujing Dai Xiaohe)

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