China, the world's biggest greenhouse gas emitter, aims to produce 8 percent of its total energy with wind power within the next ten years.
Windmills are springing up across China as the world's biggest carbon dioxide emitter pledges greener growth.
The world's third largest economy vows to make wind-generated power count for eight percent of the country's total by 2020.
Chinese President Hu Jintao said China would put a "notable" brake on the its rapidly rising carbon emissions at a UN climate change summit in New York on Tuesday.
"I have secured contracts for the next two years, with nearly 300 wind turbines to be installed," says Yue Chuan, project manager of installing company.
Wind energy accounts for just 0.4 percent of China's total electricity supply, but Beijing plans to raise to raise it to 8 percent, by 2020, with an annual growth rate of about 20 percent.
However, researcher from China's Academy of Social Sciences, Chen Yao cautions against blind expansion that has drawn swarms of investors and record installations.
"The country is encouraging the use of new energy, and this is strategically moving in the right direction. But no matter what kind of new technology we are promoting, even if it is high-tech, we cannot all rush to do it. There must be a scale limit. We cannot overdevelop wind power," says Yao.
Hu vowed that China would vigorously develop renewable energy or cut the amount of carbon dioxide for each dollar of economic output.
The pledge, which marked the first time China has said it will accept measurable curbs on its emissions, was seen as an attempt to counter critics, especially in Washington, who say Beijing is doing too little.
Reuters