Green Electricity

(This book was featured on Hebei's 2023 Online Literature List.) On the eve of the Beijing Winter Olympics, spokesperson Zhao Lijian's words, "The wind in Zhangbei lights up Beijing," brought green electricity into everyone's view. In the contest among major powers over new energy, a group of power workers gave up comfortable lives in big cities and came to the harsh environment of Zhangbei. They braved blizzards and bitter cold to build the "Golden Sun" wind-solar-storage project, three substations and four transmission lines, the Zhangxiong ultra-high-voltage line, the Zhangbei flexible DC demonstration project, the first-ever 100% green electricity supply for Winter Olympic venues, and the Green Electricity for a Brighter Future program, which helped 100,000 poor households escape poverty. These world-renowned achievements and major national projects were made possible by power workers laboring quietly for ten years, their names unknown, in a contest over new energy comparable to the Second Industrial Revolution. Their work has placed the motherland at the forefront of the world. This book is dedicated to those unsung power workers.