Developing New Quality Productive Forces to Achieve Carbon Neutrality

ObjectivesIn response to global climate change, China has committed to achieving carbon neutrality by 2060, which will inevitably bring strategic transformations across various industries and present an opportunity to develop new quality productive forces. This paper analyzes the potential transformations driven by China’s carbon neutrality goal from the perspective of technological innovation.MethodsThis paper investigates the main challenges China faces in achieving carbon neutrality, discusses the relationship between carbon neutrality and the development of new quality productive forces, and highlights research directions in zero-carbon energy supply, fossil resource utilization, and CO2 capture and utilization.ConclusionsAchieving carbon neutrality in China requires large-scale development of new energy and advanced transformation and upgrading of traditional industries, especially the fossil resource utilization. It also requires continuous scientific and technological innovation and application, as well as breakthroughs in disruptive technologies. The successful realization of carbon neutrality also relies on CO2 capture and utilization.