During the “Eleventh Five-Year Plan” period, the Chinese energy industry insisted on the principle of “optimizing the development of thermal power, orderly development of hydropower, actively developing nuclear power, accelerating the development of gas power, and vigorously developing wind power.” At present, China's power generation capacity is 800 million kW, ranking second in the world. By the end of June 2010, 23 nuclear power plants were under construction, accounting for 40% of the 57 units under construction in the world. During the “12th Five-Year Plan” period, China’s nuclear power construction will enter a peak period, and offshore wind power projects will also be stepped up. It is estimated that by 2015, the total installed capacity of power generation in China will reach 1.26 billion KW, ranking the first in the world.

In order to meet the development of the national economy, the power industry will maintain a certain growth rate. The Chinese government has officially promised to the world that by 2020, the carbon dioxide emissions of the GDP will have dropped by 40% to 45% compared with 2005, and the proportion of non-fossil energy in primary energy consumption will have reached about 15%. To achieve the above objectives, we must increase energy structure adjustments and vigorously develop new and renewable energy sources. Priority will be given to the development of nuclear power and the proportion of installed nuclear power will strive to achieve 5% of the total installed capacity of nuclear power in 2020. To increase the scale of power generation for nuclear power plants, from the current 1 million kilowatts to 1.7 million kilowatts, the investment will be much greater than originally planned. 7000-750 billion yuan; to form an annual capacity of more than 10 million kilowatts of equipment, to create 6 to 7 "wind power Three Gorges"; water power competition in 2020 installed capacity to reach 300 million kilowatts; to further implement the West-East power transmission, etc. The key projects will realize the optimal allocation of electric power resources in a wider range, promote the scientific and economic utilization of hydropower, and implement a large pressure reduction strategy for coal power generation, eliminate backward production capacity, and encourage the construction of high-efficiency and environmentally-friendly power generation units with low energy consumption and large capacity. Actively promote the coal and electricity integration process.

The adjustment of the energy structure has expanded the market space for the energy equipment manufacturing industry and created new market opportunities for the machine tool industry.

China's energy equipment manufacturing industry has invested more at the end of the “Eleventh Five-Year Plan” period, but as investment in clean energy such as nuclear power and wind power increases, large-scale castings and forgings, annular bodies (such as turbine casings), large-scale complex parts, Large-scale plane machining and semi-circular body machining, blade and root machining, various pump bodies, pump valve manufacturing, etc., heavy-duty vertical lathes, large-scale floor milling and boring machines, super heavy-duty gantry boring and milling machines, 5-axis linkage machine tools, and numerically controlled broaching machines. All kinds of high-grade vertical and horizontal processing centers, as well as the corresponding numerical control tools and measuring instruments, will put forward new requirements.