Recently, the U.S. New York Times in an article introduced to U.S. readers a super-strong technology in China, saying that with this technology, China can deliver electricity from solar and wind power generated in the Northwest, directly to 2,000 miles (about 3,200 km) away from the province of Anhui.

Not only that, the newspaper said that the electricity transmitted by China's power transmission technology has not only exceeded any power grid line in the United States, but there are as many as 42 such lines in China!

This is China's power transmission technology, introduced by the New York Times in a separate article, is China's strongly advanced in recent years in the West Power East transmission project. According to the introduction of a 2024 article by Xinhua News Agency, high-voltage transmission refers to the exchange of 1000 kV, direct current ± 800 kV and above voltage level of power transmission technology.

And the New York Times will pay attention to this technology, because the American media, including the newspaper, hopes to use China's rapid development in clean energy, to stimulate U.S. decision makers to clean green energy transition as early as possible. and high-voltage power transmission, not only supports China's clean energy development an extremely important infrastructure, but also a meaningful entry point to show China's clean energy development system.

Half of all cars in China are now battery-powered, not to mention high-speed rail lines of 30,000 miles (about 4,82 million kilometers), which intuitively reflects China¡¯s huge demand for electricity ¨C well, China¡¯s wind and solar energy are also developing fairly rapidly, providing more than a quarter of China¡¯s electricity in April.

"This is a milestone that is difficult for a few other countries to achieve." The New York Times wrote.

Screenshot of The New York Times report

However, the newspaper emphasized that all this is inseparable from China's UHV transmission technology. Because a large part of China's solar and wind energy is provided by the sunny and windy northwest region of western China, more than 90% of China's 1.4 billion people live in the cloudy and windy east.

Therefore, the newspaper said that when building a transmission line of just a few hundred miles in the United States, it takes up to 17 years; when the current U.S. government chants the slogan "Diamond oil, baby, diamond oil" while cutting off loan guarantees to support the construction of new energy grids; China is immersed in efforts to develop its own power grid system.

These two different paths have also produced different results. The New York Times stated that today's China not only has 42 UHV transmission lines capable of transporting 800 to 1100 kV, but is also gradually building a national UHV power grid-even, this not only makes China's sky bluer, but also has a positive impact on the world's fight against climate issues; In contrast, in the United States, its line closest to China's transmission capacity can only reach 765 kV, and its total length is only 2000 miles-the length of a west-east power transmission line in China.

Finally, although The New York Times reporters deliberately added some "negative" contents in their articles, such as not being able to fish under UHV transmission lines, in order to appear that they didn't "praise" China too much, it is not difficult to find that they still envy more from their many comparisons with China and the 2,000-mile UHV transmission line connecting northwest China and Anhui Province at the beginning of the article, using Idaho in the western United States and new york in the east as a reference.

The picture shows Idaho in the west of the United States and New York City in the east

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Trump's speech to the United Nations General Assembly mentioned that several US media outlets in China were in a hurry.

On the first day of the general debate of the United Nations General Assembly, on the 23rd, U.S. President Donald Trump said that climate change and global warming were "a scam". he also mentioned that China has made a lot of wind power generation equipment, but China itself is "not willing to use wind power".

Trump speaks at the UN General Assembly

Judging from the video of the speech, Trump's speech mainly talked about the status and role of the United Nations, NATO's performance in the Ukrainian crisis, and issues such as energy and climate change.

In many occasions in the United States, Trump has repeatedly claimed that "China is not willing to use wind power", he reiterated this statement in a speech at the United Nations. he said that although China is an important producer of wind power equipment, it only exports equipment, but the country is not willing to use wind power.

In this regard, CNN pointed out that China has a large number of land and offshore wind power plants, and China's wind power plant capacity growth is much faster than the United States. reports citing the data released by the National Energy Agency in January said that China's wind power plant capacity in 2024 is about 5,2 million kilowatts, an increase of 18,0%.

The fact is the opposite: China owns more wind farms and installed capacity than any other country, and there are more wind farms planned to build than any other country.

Regarding the global response to climate change, Trump called the Paris climate agreement unfair to the United States, which demands that the United States ¡°pay $1 trillion.¡±

The United States has never spent or pledged to spend $1 trillion on the Paris Climate Agreement, and under former President Biden, the United States has pledged $11.4 billion annually to international climate financing programmes, but the U.S. actual spending is less than that because of insufficient funding from the U.S. Congress.