TSINGHUA CHINA LAW REVIEW
Technological and Legal Innovation in China’s Electric Power System Reform: a Review of Wang Mingyuan’s Chapter in Innovation In Energy Law And Technology
Created on:2026-02-07 22:07 PV:57
By HU Siyuan |18 Tsinghua China L. Rev. (2025) |   |   Download Full Article PDF

Abstract: Wang Mingyuan’s chapter in Innovation in Energy Law and Technology focuses on China’s electricity sector reform and examines how technological progress has driven institutional change within the power system. Combining extensive empirical analysis with a coherent theoretical framework, the chapter conceptualizes technological and legal innovation as “two engines” propelling China’s energy transition and offers concrete policy recommendations from a legal reform perspective. Building on Wang’s analysis, this review summarizes the chapter’s core insights and academic contributions, supplements them with major developments in China’s electricity law and governance since 2018, and further develops its theoretical implications by bringing the concepts of creative destruction and energy justice into the discus.