Gleaming under sunlight are houses in Xinma, a picturesque village in South 
China's Qingyuan City. Their rooftops are mounted with distributed photovoltaic 
panels, which are being autonomously maintained by unmanned aerial vehicles. 
The solar power generated is seamlessly integrated into smart grids and 
energy-storage microgrids operated by CSG Guangdong Power Grid Co., Ltd. This 
ensures a clean energy source sustainably powers an array of amenities in the 
village, including household utilities, kitchen electrification, intelligent 
street lighting, and a smart electric vehicle charging station. Such fusion of 
renewable energy infrastructure has progressively turned Xinma into Guangdong's 
first exemplary village achieving the goal of carbon neutrality. This scene was 
recently observed by journalists from the Chinese state news agency Xinhua 
during their visit to the village.

Guangdong Power Grid remains committed to the principle of "people's 
electricity for the people" and stays focused on electrification and power 
supply quality improvement in rural areas, said Liao Jianping, Chairman of 
Guangdong Power Grid, at a forum that promotes the use of green energy to drive 
the high-quality development project for hundreds of counties, thousands of 
towns, and myriads of villages in Guangdong, which was held on December 15. 
With that in mind, he added, the company will improve power supply quality of 
distribution network, accelerate the building of modern rural power grids, and 
develop new energy systems in rural areas. This is how it affords the people 
using electricity a more sustainable sense of satisfaction and fulfillment and 
increases the internal impetus for rural revitalization.

Statistics released at the forum showed that in recent years Guangdong Power 
Grid has been committed to promoting the development of photovoltaic systems. 
To date, solar installations have totaled 23.7 million kilowatts and can 
produce 20 billion kilowatt hours of electricity annually, equivalent to a 
decrease of 16 million tons of carbon emissions. Also, 27 grid-connected 
offshore wind power projects have been put in place. Collectively, they boast a 
solar installation capacity of about 8.4 million kilowatts, capable of 
generating 25.2 billion kilowatt hours of electricity each year or reducing a 
total of 19.44 million tons of carbon emissions. Beyond that, the company has 
built 13 new power system distribution network demonstration area and signed 
cooperation framework agreements with over 20 governments at the county or 
district level. Over the past three years, a total of 103 competent employees 
have been dispatched to promote the development of Guangdong's "Hundred, 
Thousand, Myriad Project".

Large sets of data revealed that while advancing the new practice of Chinese 
modernization championed by China Southern Power Grid, Guangdong Power Grid is 
promoting the construction of new power systems and novel energy systems by 
accelerating coordinated development in digitalization and green initiatives. 
That means in driving the high-quality development of Guangdong, it promises to 
infuse fresh impetus and pioneer an unconventional path to chart a brand-new 
chapter.

The Forum on Promoting Guangdong's "Hundred, Thousand, Myriad Project" Through 
Green Energy was jointly organized by Xinhua News Agency Guangdong Branch and 
Guangdong Power Grid Company.

Source: CSG Guangdong Power Grid Co., Ltd.