On December 25, Gansu Provincial Department of Natural Resources Gansu Provincial Forestry and Grassland Bureau Gansu Provincial Energy Bureau issued a notice on further regulating the land use management of photovoltaic power generation projects. The notice points out that it strictly implements the requirements of "three zones and three lines" of land space planning, optimizes the spatial distribution of large-scale photovoltaic bases and photovoltaic power generation projects, and reasonably arranges the scale of new land use for photovoltaic power generation projects, layout and development sequence. The new construction and expansion of PV power generation projects shall not occupy permanent basic farmland, basic grassland (before the latest optimization and adjustment results of the basic grassland in the province are announced, it will be determined in accordance with the current management scope), and Class I protected forest land.
On December 20, the National Energy Board released January-November national power industry statistics. Among them, in November China's photovoltaic new installed capacity of 25GW, January-November photovoltaic cumulative new installed capacity of 206.3GW.
December 17, Shandong Provincial People's Government issued "on the sound improvement of new energy consumption system mechanism to promote high-quality development of energy a number of measures" notice, requiring 2025-2026 new centralized, distributed PV projects independently choose to participate in the electricity market for the full amount of electricity or 15% power generation.
On December 16, the National Energy Administration 2025 Regulatory Work Conference was held in Beijing. The meeting was guided by Xi Jinping's thought of socialism with Chinese characteristics in the new era, comprehensively implemented the spirit of the 20th CPC National Congress and the 2nd and 3rd Plenary Sessions of the 20th CPC Central Committee and the deployment of the Central Economic Work Conference, conscientiously implemented the requirements of the National Development and Reform Work Conference and the National Energy Work Conference, summarized the achievements of the energy regulation in 2024, analyzed the current situation, and deployed the work in 2025. Wang Hongzhi, secretary of the party group and director of the National Energy Administration, attended the meeting and delivered a speech.
December 18, the National Energy Board Southern Supervisory Board issued the "southern region" two rules "main revised provisions" of the notice, in order to better serve the construction of a new type of power system, recently, the Southern Energy Board in conjunction with the Yunnan, Guizhou Energy Supervision Office to comprehensively summarize the implementation of the rules for the southern region of grid-connected power operation and auxiliary services assessment and compensation. Recently, the Southern Energy Regulatory Authority, together with Yunnan and Guizhou Energy Regulatory Offices, comprehensively summarized the effectiveness of the implementation of the rules on power grid-connected operation and auxiliary service assessment and compensation in the southern region, improved the relevant working mechanism, and revised and issued a new version of the "two rules.
On December 15, 2025, the National Energy Work Conference was held in Beijing. Zheng Jiejie, secretary of the party group and director of the National Development and Reform Commission, attended the meeting and delivered a speech, and Wang Hongzhi, secretary of the party group and director of the National Energy Administration, made a work report.
