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TERRITORIAL EMISSIONS · 2024

🇨🇳 China

World rank #1 · Asia · Same as 3.8 billion cars driven for a year a year

China

3.8 billion

cars driven for a year

17.5 Gt CO₂e

rising +2.8%/yr

🔥 China ranks #1 because its economy — across power, industry, transport and agriculture — released 17.5 Gt of CO₂e in 2024.

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Top emitters here

18Angang Steel Co Ltd= 11M cars/yrManufacturing · China50.7 Mt CO₂e 31Shaanxi Qingshuichuan Energy Co Ltd= 4.5M cars/yrPower · China20.7 Mt CO₂e 36Maanshan Iron & Steel Co Ltd= 6.4M cars/yrManufacturing · China29.2 Mt CO₂e 56Hunan Valin Lianyuan Iron and Steel Co Ltd= 6M cars/yrManufacturing · China27.4 Mt CO₂e 62Inner Mongolia BaoTou Steel Union Co Ltd= 6.1M cars/yrManufacturing · China28.2 Mt CO₂e

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64PetroChina Changqing Oilfield Branch Co= 5.5M cars/yrFossil Fuels · China25.3 Mt CO₂e 70Baoshan Iron & Steel Co Ltd= 5.3M cars/yrManufacturing · China24.4 Mt CO₂e 71Zhangjiagang Hongchang Steel Co Ltd= 5.3M cars/yrManufacturing · China24.2 Mt CO₂e 74Wuhan Iron and Steel Co Ltd= 5.5M cars/yrManufacturing · China25.1 Mt CO₂e 77Zhejiang Zheneng Jiahua Power Generator Co Ltd= 4.9M cars/yrPower · China22.6 Mt CO₂e 78CHN ENERGY Yuedian Taishan POWER Generationg Co Ltd= 4.9M cars/yrPower · China22.4 Mt CO₂e 83Bengang Steel Plates Co Ltd= 4.8M cars/yrManufacturing · China21.9 Mt CO₂e 84Baosteel Zhanjiang Iron & Steel Co Ltd= 4.6M cars/yrManufacturing · China20.9 Mt CO₂e 88Rizhao Steel Holding Group Co Ltd= 4.4M cars/yrManufacturing · China20.3 Mt CO₂e 98Guangdong Huaxia Power Development Co Ltd= 4.4M cars/yrPower · China20.5 Mt CO₂e 99Anhui Huainan Pingwei Power Generation Co Ltd= 4.4M cars/yrPower · China20.1 Mt CO₂e 105Shougang Jingtang United Iron & Steel Co Ltd= 4.5M cars/yrManufacturing · China20.6 Mt CO₂e 110Zhejiang Guohua Zheneng Power Generation Co Ltd= 4.3M cars/yrPower · China19.8 Mt CO₂e 112Huayang Electric Power Co Ltd= 4.1M cars/yrPower · China18.9 Mt CO₂e 113Huaneng Shantou Haimen Power Generation Co Ltd= 4.1M cars/yrPower · China18.7 Mt CO₂e 114Huaneng International Power Co Ltd Yuhuan Power Plant= 3.9M cars/yrPower · China18.2 Mt CO₂e 117Jurong Power Generation Branch of Huadian Jiangsu Energy Co Ltd= 4M cars/yrPower · China18.6 Mt CO₂e 118Huaneng Qinbei Power Generation Co Ltd= 3.9M cars/yrPower · China18.1 Mt CO₂e 120Xinyu Iron & Steel Corp Ltd= 3.9M cars/yrManufacturing · China17.8 Mt CO₂e 121Shanxi Taigang Stainless Steel Co Ltd= 3.8M cars/yrManufacturing · China17.3 Mt CO₂e 125Gansu Power Investment Changle Power Generation Co Ltd= 3.9M cars/yrPower · China18 Mt CO₂e 126Hubei Energy Group Ezhou Power Generation Co Ltd= 3.8M cars/yrPower · China17.7 Mt CO₂e 135Tianjin Sdic Jinneng Electric Power Co Ltd= 3.8M cars/yrPower · China17.3 Mt CO₂e 139Guoneng (Suizhong) Power Generation Co Ltd= 3.7M cars/yrPower · China16.9 Mt CO₂e 140Xinjiang Sixth Agricultural Division Coal Power Co Ltd= 3.7M cars/yrPower · China16.9 Mt CO₂e 143Zouping Binneng Energy Technology Co Ltd= 3.6M cars/yrPower · China16.6 Mt CO₂e 146Liuzhou IRON&STEEL Co Ltd= 3.6M cars/yrManufacturing · China16.6 Mt CO₂e 149Shandong IRON&STEEL Group Rizhao Co Ltd= 3.3M cars/yrManufacturing · China15.3 Mt CO₂e 150Liaocheng Xinyuan Group Co Ltd= 3.6M cars/yrPower · China16.8 Mt CO₂e 152HUA NENG Yimin Coal and POWER Co Ltd= 3.5M cars/yrPower · China16.1 Mt CO₂e 158Jiangsu Ligang Electric POWER Co Ltd= 3.2M cars/yrPower · China14.8 Mt CO₂e 163China Huadian Ningxia Lingwu Electric POWER Co Ltd= 3.2M cars/yrPower · China14.9 Mt CO₂e 164Zhangjiagagn Shazhou Electric POWER Co Ltd= 3.2M cars/yrPower · China14.7 Mt CO₂e 165Jiangsu Sheyanggang Power Generation Co Ltd= 3.2M cars/yrPower · China14.9 Mt CO₂e 166Zhejiang Zheneng Yueqing Power Generation Co Ltd= 3.2M cars/yrPower · China14.9 Mt CO₂e 168SGIS Songshan Co Ltd= 3M cars/yrManufacturing · China13.8 Mt CO₂e 169Hebei Donghai SPECIAL Steel Group Co Ltd= 3.3M cars/yrManufacturing · China15.2 Mt CO₂e 170Datang Yangcheng Power Generation Co Ltd= 3.2M cars/yrPower · China14.7 Mt CO₂e 172Shanxi Xingneng Power Generation Co Ltd= 3.1M cars/yrPower · China14 Mt CO₂e 173SDIC Qinzhou Electric POWER Co Ltd= 3M cars/yrPower · China13.9 Mt CO₂e 174Shanghai Meishan Iron & Steel Co Ltd= 2.8M cars/yrManufacturing · China13 Mt CO₂e 177Guangdongdatanginternationalchaozhoupower Co Ltd= 3.2M cars/yrPower · China14.6 Mt CO₂e 179INNER MONGOLIA Datang International Tuoketuo POWER Genration Co Ltd= 3.1M cars/yrPower · China14.2 Mt CO₂e 180INNER MONGOLIA Datang International Tuoketuo POWER Genration Co Ltd= 3.1M cars/yrPower · China14.2 Mt CO₂e 181China Resources Power (Xuzhou) Co Ltd= 3.1M cars/yrPower · China14 Mt CO₂e

Largest sites

Asset	Sector	Annual emissions	Confidence
Angang Steel Co Ltd	Manufacturing	38 Mt	medium
Baise Prefecture City	Manufacturing	33.1 Mt	very low
Maanshan Iron and Steel Co Ltd	Manufacturing	29.2 Mt	medium
Togtoh power station	Power	28.4 Mt	high
Inner Mongolia BaoTou Steel Union Co Ltd	Manufacturing	28.2 Mt	medium
China_North China_Heavy oil	Fossil Fuels	25.9 Mt	very low
China_Ordos_Tight gas	Fossil Fuels	25.3 Mt	very low
Wuhan Iron and Steel Co Ltd	Manufacturing	25.1 Mt	medium
Baoshan Iron and Steel Co Ltd Headquarters	Manufacturing	24.4 Mt	medium
Zhangjiagang Hongchang Steel Co Ltd	Manufacturing	24.2 Mt	medium
Changshu-2 power station	Power	23.7 Mt	medium
Jiaxing power station	Power	22.6 Mt	very low
Taishan power station	Power	22.4 Mt	medium
Fengcheng power station	Power	22.3 Mt	very low
Bengang Steel Plates Co Ltd	Manufacturing	21.9 Mt	medium

Trend

National total, 2016–2024. Source: Climate TRACE. China is rising at +2.8% year on year.

Getting worse — based on the last 9 years of measured data.

What we know · what we don't

Confidence reflects how completely Climate TRACE has measured this country’s emissions; coverage shows the share of those emissions we can tie to a named owner. Both feed the 0–100 Climate Damage Score above. Untraced emissions are real — they just don’t yet have a named owner in the open datasets we use.

Where this comes from

Climate TRACE · CC BY 4.0 · World Bank — population