China's cumulative installed power generation capacity reached 3.43 billion kilowatts by the end of March, marking a year-on-year increase of 14.6 percent, official data showed on Sunday.
Solar power generation capacity amounted to 950 million kilowatts by the end of last month, surging 43.4 percent compared to the same period last year, according to the National Energy Administration (NEA).
Wind power generation capacity stood at 540 million kilowatts by the end of March, rising 17.2 percent year on year, according to the NEA data.
In the first three months of 2025, China's major power generation companies invested 132.2 billion yuan (about 18.34 billion U.S. dollars) in power generation projects, down 2.5 percent year on year.
During the same period, investments in power grid projects reached 95.6 billion yuan, up 24.8 percent year on year, the NEA data showed.
China's installed power generation capacity up 14.6 percent in Q-1
The three astronauts aboard China's Shenzhou-23 spaceship have entered the country's Tiangong space station and met with their astronaut colleagues early Monday morning, as they now begin an in-orbit crew handover.
Mission commander Zhu Yangzhu and fellow astronauts Zhang Zhiyuan and Lai Ka-ying successfully entered the station's core module Tianhe after the spaceship made a fast automated rendezvous and docked with the Tianhe module at 02:45 (Beijing Time) on Monday.
The three Shenzhou-21 crew members opened the hatch at 05:13 (Beijing Time) and greeted the new arrivals, according to the China Manned Space Agency (CMSA).
The six astronauts then took group pictures for the eighth in-orbit get-together in China's aerospace history.
Notably, one of the Shenzhou-23 crew members is set to undertake a year-long stay aboard the space station, double the usual duration of previous Shenzhou missions.
The Shenzhou-23 spaceship, atop a Long March-2F carrier rocket, blasted off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China at 23:08 (Beijing Time) on Sunday.
Shenzhou-23 marks the 40th flight of China's manned spaceflight program and the seventh manned flight mission since the Tiangong space station entered its application and development phase in late 2022.
Shenzhou-23 astronauts enter Tiangong space station, meet Shenzhou-21 crew
