China’s nuclear power output increased 5.7% year-on-year in 2021, with wind power up 30.1% and solar power up 18.8% while thermal power generation was 4.9% down and hydropower output down 6.8%, the country’s state news agency Xinhua said.

Power generation as a whole rose 8.1% in 2021 to reach 8.11 trillion kWh, Xinhua reported, citing figures from the National Bureau of Statistics. The figure for last year was up 11% on the pre-pandemic year of 2019.