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On the 18th, the American journal Science announced its list of the top 10 scientific breakthroughs of 2025, with “the unstoppable growth of renewable energy worldwide” being named the biggest breakthrough of the year. The magazine believes that by 2025, renewable energy will surpass traditional energy in various sectors worldwide, and this significant transformation will be led primarily by China. A paper published in the journal Science reports that this year, global renewable energy generation surpassed that of coal for the first time ； The rapid growth of solar and wind energy is sufficient to meet the world’s new electricity demand in the first half of this year. The article argues that China’s continued expansion in areas such as solar cells, wind turbines, and lithium-ion battery storage has strengthened its leading position in the global production of renewable energy and related technologies. The article points out that China’s strong industrial system is the main driver of this trend. Approximately 80% of the world’s solar cells, 70% of wind turbines, and 70% of lithium batteries are produced in China, which holds a decisive cost advantage. China’s booming exports of green technologies are also transforming other parts of the world, including Europe and the Global South**. Several of the other 9 scientific breakthroughs selected by the journal Science this year are related to life and health. For example, custom gene editing brings hope for ultra-rare diseases ； Two new drugs for gonorrhea have proven effective in large-scale clinical trials; they represent the first new tools against serious sexually transmitted diseases in decades ； Research has found that nerve cells help cancer cells to \"supercharge\" themselves by transferring mitochondria; blocking this transfer may slow down the spread of cancer cells ； A historic breakthrough has been achieved in xenotransplantation. Other research achievements that made it into the list of top 10 breakthroughs include: a telescope designed to accelerate the development of new astronomy, which was built this year on a mountain in Chile and can be considered the \"all-seeing eye\" of the sky” ； New findings emerge from the study of a extinct human lineage—the Denisovans ； Large language models have demonstrated, this year, a level of sophistication and analytical ability equivalent to that of a doctorate holder in various scientific fields ； Advances in computational techniques help uncover new progress in particle physics ； And new breakthroughs have been achieved in the research on heat-tolerant rice. Among them, the research on the Denisovans and heat-tolerant rice was led by Chinese scientific teams.