Chinese energy companies showcase wind farms after Trump denies their existence

Surprised by U.S. President Donald Trump's comments claiming China does not use wind power, top Chinese energy companies seized the opportunity to showcase China's wind energy accomplishments.

"China makes almost all of the windmills, and yet, I haven't been able to find any wind farms in China. Did you ever think of that?" Trump said to global leaders at the recent World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2026 in Davos, Switzerland.

The remarks prompted an immediate wave of responses from China's leading energy enterprises, which have shared numerous images highlighting their wind farms across the country and technological advancements on China's Quora-like knowledge-sharing platform Zhihu.

China Energy Engineering Corporation (CEEC), also known as Energy China, emphasized its end-to-end capabilities covering installation, planning, design, maintenance and operation, while posting a series of photos of its wind farms across China.

Photo shows an 850,000-kW offshore wind farm in Dafeng district, Yancheng, east China's Jiangsu Province. (Photo/China Energy Engineering Corporation)

From deserts to seas, and from mountains to plains, vast arrays of wind turbines have become a distinctive green feature of China's landscape, the company said, thanking Trump for the opportunity to showcase its achievements.

According to CEEC, wind and solar power generation accounts for a growing share of China's electricity consumption, rising from 9.7 percent in 2020 to 18.6 percent in 2024, and nearing 25 percent in the first half of 2025.