How we made it: will China be the first electrostate?

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

61% : China could be on its way to becoming the world's first major "electrostate", with its electrification rate climbing to 30 per cent, ahead of the EU and US where electricity as a final share of energy has plateaued around 22 per cent in recent years.
56% : The network of high-speed rail spans 45,000km -- five times the size of the EU's -- and is forecast to expand to about 60,000km by 2030.
55% : Electrification is the process of swapping processes and technologies reliant on fossil fuels with electrically-powered alternatives.
55% : Nerd note on the metrics: Electrification as the share of electricity in final energy consumption shows how much of the energy actually used comes from electricity (vs from fossil fuels).
55% : China's electricity mix also includes nuclear, gas and bioenergy -- however coal, solar, wind and hydro make up more than 90% of the country's total installed capacity and the vast majority of its planned additions, so we focused on those four.
53% : Electrification is "one of the most important strategies for reducing carbon emissions from energy", according to the International Energy Agency.

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