[Yu Weiping, vice president of China Railway Corporation: energy consumption of the railway network in 2022 is equivalent to the power generation of a three Gorges power station]. Yu Weiping, vice president of China Railway Corporation, said in a speech at the 2023 World Power Battery Congress held this afternoon: "Rail transit accounts for more than 3 percent of the country's electricity consumption and accounts for a higher share of carbon dioxide emissions, which will continue to promote the development of the power industry." Yu Weiping pointed out that according to statistics, the energy consumption of the railway network last year was 15.12 million tons of standard coal, equivalent to 120 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity, equivalent to eating up the generating capacity of a three Gorges power station. Urban passenger traffic accounts for 45.8% of the country's total traffic volume, and the scale of the road network and passenger volume are still increasing year by year, while our electricity consumption in 55 cities is less than 23 billion kilowatt-hours, indicating that our urban rail transit is very energy-saving, and TOD planning as a city is also very necessary. Because rail transit has the application demand of rich scenarios of absorption and energy saving, rail transit equipment has the siphon effect of traction clean energy development. (financial Associated Press reporter Xing Qixin)