As the COP26 climate summit continues, the world's major coal users and climate-vulnerable countries have committed to phasing out coal power and accelerating the transition to generating power from clean sources.

China has taken concrete steps towards clean and renewable energy generation. In northwestern Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, the solar energy industry has a highly developed industrial chain from sourcing raw silicon materials to creating the photovoltaic panels. While producing green energy products, the solar power sector in the country's far west has also made contributions to a "Green Xinjiang".