China Hongqiao Group is moving over 60% of its aluminium production from coal-based Shandong to renewables-rich Yunnan Province to accelerate its major decarbonisation strategy.
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China Hongqiao Group
With close to 6.5 Mtpa of primary smelting capacity, China Hongqiao Group is one of the world’s largest aluminium producers. ince the company has been pursuing an ambitious relocation strategy from coal-based Shandong to renewable-rich Yunnan Province to decarbonise its operations. As of 2025, China Honqiao has already relocated 2 Mtpa of primary capacity (Yunnan Hongtai) and is underway to open an additional 2 Mtpa by 2026 (Yunnan Honghe), representing more than 60% of its capacity.
The grid in Yunnan is famously clean, with more than 90% powered by renewables, especially hydroelectricity. Taking a step further, China Hongqiao has commissioned 2 GW of solar PV capacity to complement the Yunnan grid in 2025, with an additional 2 GW currently under development. Relocating smelting capacity is allowing the company to refresh the technology and introduce the highly energy-efficient 600kA Plus electrolysis cells.
The capability and the speed of delivery of renewable energy projects in China is one of the advantages we have.
China Hongqiao Group
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Bright Spot | China Hongqiao Group
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Mission Possible Partnership (MPP) is an independent non-profit organisation advancing global clean industry transformation. Since 2019, we have been working with some of the most energy-intensive industries: aluminium, aviation, cement, chemicals, shipping and steel, to cut their nearly 25% of global GHG emissions.
We mobilise business, finance, government and civil society leaders to speed up the shift to clean materials, chemicals and fuels. Having charted sectoral pathways to net-zero, we continue to forge new territory, lifting the barriers to enable a critical mass of clean industrial projects to break ground by 2030.
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CISRI’s Linyi project in Shandong Province represents one of the most significant breakthroughs in global iron and steel decarbonisation. As an industrial-scale pure hydrogen direct reduced iron (DRI) facility, the project demonstrates China’s ambition to advance to near-zero carbon metallurgy by combining long-term research, abundant renewable energy resources and state-backed industrial innovation.
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Bright Spot | CISRI Linyi
China remains the frontrunner in clean industry development, securing a quarter of the $250 billion of investment in clean plants to date, closely followed by the US at 22% and the EU at 14%. But a block of emerging markets including India, Egypt and Brazil, part of the ‘new industrial sunbelt’, is quickly catching up.
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