Offshore wind turbines harness the breeze across the Bohai Bay, as new energy becomes a cornerstone of new quality productive forces and global competition shifts toward value creation across entire industrial chains. Boasting vast saline-alkali mudflats, an extensive coastline, and a solid industrial foundation, Shandong is the only province in northern China whose industrial footprint spans all five core new energy sectors, including wind power, photovoltaics, nuclear energy, energy storage, and electrical equipment. It gathers around 1,400 upstream and downstream new energy enterprises, with an industry scale exceeding 400 billion yuan.
Leveraging its advantages in midstream equipment manufacturing and its established strengths in industries such as metallurgy and marine engineering, Shandong has made breakthroughs in key technologies, including large forgings for offshore wind turbines and nuclear power materials, cultivating 25 chain owners and 662 specialized and sophisticated enterprises. Meanwhile, it has built several new energy demonstration bases and pioneered the "financial chain owner" mechanism to resolve financing bottlenecks for enterprises.
At present, Shandong's new energy transition still confronts challenges in the supply of high-end components, grid connection and consumption, and commercial application. As a national pilot zone for green, low-carbon, and high-quality development, Shandong continues to upgrade its energy structure and explore green transformation pathways for a major traditional industrial province, as the industry's race to harness wind and solar power charges ahead.