In 2020, China installed 52 gigawatts of new wind power capacity — more than the rest of the world combined — bringing its total installed wind capacity to over 280 gigawatts and firmly establishing it as by far the world's dominant wind energy nation. China's wind installation boom, driven by government targets, competitive turbine manufacturing, and abundant wind resources in Inner Mongolia, Xinjiang, and the eastern coastal provinces, transformed the global wind industry supply chain and dramatically reduced the cost of wind turbines worldwide. Chinese manufacturers now supply the majority of the world's wind turbine components.

China's transformation into the world's wind power superpower occurs against the backdrop of a literary tradition that has celebrated wind for over three millennia — from the Classic of Poetry (Shijing, c.1000–600 BC), which opens with a poem whose title is conventionally translated as 'The Winds,' to the Tang dynasty poets Li Bai and Du Fu, whose wind imagery shaped the aesthetic sensibility of all subsequent Chinese verse. Contemporary Chinese eco-poets and urban writers are beginning to engage with wind turbine landscapes in Inner Mongolia and along the coasts, negotiating between ancient wind poetry traditions and the industrial reshaping of China's wind environment. The political resonance of China's wind dominance has also entered international climate discourse where poetic and rhetorical framings are contested.