humphery/Shutterstock Save for later Print Download Share LinkedIn Twitter China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), the country’s foreign economic policy, is turning significantly greener as it becomes the primary export vehicle for the country's new energy expertise. China’s energy-related engagement —through investments and construction contracts — in the first half of 2023 was the greenest in any six-month period since the BRI’s inception in 2013, according to China’s Fudan University's Green Finance and Development Center (GFDC). Out of total energy engagement of $12.3 billion, about 41% went into solar and wind, plus an additional 14% into hydropower. "I expect this [renewable projects] to be a continuing trend due to continuous need in electricity production and the improving economics of solar and wind-generated electricity compared to fossil fuels," GFDC Director Christoph Nedopil told Energy Intelligence.
