how many wind farms does china have

China does not publish a simple, up‑to‑date “total number of wind farms” figure, but available public statistics show it has well over a hundred offshore wind farms and many hundreds (likely thousands) of onshore wind farms as of 2024–2025.

Quick Scoop

• As of June 2024, China had about 129 offshore wind farms in operation, putting it among the top countries globally for offshore wind projects.

• Onshore projects in China are far more numerous, organized into huge “wind bases” such as the Gansu/Jiuquan complex, which alone consists of multiple large wind farms with thousands of turbines ; taken together, onshore projects likely number in the high hundreds or more.

• Because China’s wind sector is expanding rapidly and projects are grouped and reported by capacity (gigawatts) rather than by “farm count,” any exact global number for all Chinese wind farms quickly goes out of date and is usually not reported in official summaries.

Why the Number Is Fuzzy

• China’s wind industry and regulators typically track installed capacity (for example, about 560+ gigawatts of wind capacity by mid‑2025) instead of counting each wind farm as a distinct unit, especially inside giant wind bases.

• Large clusters of projects may be treated as one “base” administratively even though they function as several wind farms, so different databases count them differently.

Latest Trend Context

• Policy targets call for adding around 120 gigawatts of new wind capacity per year from 2026–2030 , which implies many new projects rather than just expansion of existing farms.

• At the same time, offshore wind construction is accelerating, so the 129 offshore farms counted in mid‑2024 will almost certainly rise through the second half of the 2020s.

In forum discussions, people often phrase it as: “China has so many wind farms that capacity and turbines are easier to track than the farms themselves,” which matches how official data are reported.

TL;DR: There is no single, stable figure for “how many wind farms China has,” but current public data show roughly 129 offshore wind farms and a much larger, less precisely counted number of onshore wind farms organized into huge wind bases across the country.

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