New energy vehicles and the political geoecology of China’s Ecological Civilisation
本文探讨中国生态文明政策概念与新能源汽车产业之间的关键联系，指出新能源汽车的发展依赖于增强国家能力的权力关系，并可能再现旧的依赖与不平等。
Ecological Civilisation has been China's policy concept to frame its environmental sustainability strategy. While it lacks a clear definition, its multiple practices show a reliance on the development and implementation of technologies that reduce pollution levels and beautify the country. One of those technologies are New Energy Vehicles (NEV), which stand at the centre of an e-mobility transition across urban China. I engage with the growing debate on China's Ecological Civilisation and e-mobility transition by reflecting on the critical junctions between this policy concept and the NEV industry. I suggest that the New Energy requirements of China's Ecological Civilisation rely on power relations that enhance state capacity domestically and transnationally. In this sense, the pursuit of New Energy to build China's Ecological Civilisation relies on moral and sovereign forms of power. In a context of increasing tensions between China and countries in the North Atlantic, my contribution shows that these forms of power enhance China's state capacity through its economic infrastructure, re-producing old dependencies and inequalities.