This plan explicitly mentions global climate governance and the ongoing low-carbon transformation of the energy and industry sectors. It seeks to coordinate measures to improve national energy security and achieve carbon peaking by 2030 and carbon neutrality by 2060 to ensure a high-quality economic and social development. It adheres to the national people-entered development philosophy. It also reasserts the regulating role of coal and the goal of boosting national production of natural gas. It enshrines into national policy the goal of supporting developing countries with green energy while not supporting any new overseas coal power projects.

The plan calls for a speed up of the adjustment of the energy sector. It seeks to:
strengthen power security and electricity greed in particular
Improve energy network security management and control.
Strengthen risk management and emergency management.
Sets a number of energy targets and development of non-fossil energy for 2025
Accelerate the promotion of green and low-carbon transformation of energy (chapter 4).
Enhanced power coordination and optimised operation capability. Improvement of wind and photovoltaic power forecasts.
Accelerate the large-scale application of new energy storage technologies. Promote the development of power-side energy storage. Improve power load flexibility. Strengthen the construction of power demand side response capacity.