From June 23 to 25, the 17th Annual Meeting of the New Champions of the World Economic Forum was held in Dalian. Premier Li Qiang attended the opening ceremony and delivered a special address. With the theme “Scaling Innovation,” this year’s meeting brought together more than 1,700 leaders and innovators from government, business, and academia across over 90 countries to discuss pressing challenges and opportunities in the rapidly changing global economy.
JinkoSolar, a global leader in solar and energy storage, was invited to attend the summit. The company participated in a closed-door roundtable discussion between Premier Li Qiang and business leaders, as well as key breakout sessions including “Nature as Infrastructure,” “Driving the Comprehensive Scaling Up of Climate Governance and Solutions,” “Intelligence for Resilience—AI Empowering the Development of Climate-Resilient Societies,” and “China-MENA Cooperation: Building the Future Together,” where it offered constructive perspectives and proposals on relevant topics.
In light of this year’s Davos theme of “Innovation at Scale,” JinkoSolar’s Global Vice President Qian Jing noted that over the past decade or so, the photovoltaic industry has progressed from technological breakthroughs to a cost revolution, with the cost of solar power now lower than that of coal and natural gas power in more than 95% of the world’s regions. However, isolated technological breakthroughs do not equate to large-scale industrial success; true innovation at scale requires systematic synergy across four dimensions: technology, manufacturing, application, and ecosystem. The essence of innovation at scale is not simply replicating production capacity, but transforming technological advantages into the ability to deliver replicable system solutions.
During the forum, which focused on topics such as photovoltaic-storage integration, AI, and computing-power synergy, Qian Jing pointed out that the global scale of AI and computing power is currently undergoing an exponential leap, creating a long-term, inelastic demand for electricity—especially green electricity. Photovoltaics possess three irreplaceable advantages in supporting AI computing power: the lowest cost, the fastest deployment, and the most flexible distribution. As energy storage scales up and technologies such as virtual power plants, smart grids, and demand-side response continue to mature, PV-storage systems can provide data centers with a stable, green, and low-cost power supply. It is foreseeable that in the future, the competitiveness of AI companies will be determined not only by the scale of computing power and model parameters but also by their cost of electricity and the proportion of green power they use.
As a global leader in PV-storage solutions, JinkoSolar is committed to becoming a technology leader, application pioneer, business model innovator, and collaborative enabler in this energy and computing power revolution. Moving forward, JinkoSolar will continue to drive the deep integration of PV-storage technology and artificial intelligence through large-scale innovation, contributing Chinese wisdom to global climate governance and sustainable development.
