Oliver Conway

Wind and solar energy are a natural resource abundant in Inner Mongolia.

We can contribute to our country.

But it's not welcomed by all.

We're on a single-track road twisting through the hills of southern Yunnan, heading to a tea farm where a farmer has told us that he's being ordered to replace his crop with solar panels.

We have arrived and we can see the installation of the solar panels ahead.

Actually, they're using drones to take materials up onto the hill.

My heart aches.

Farmer Duan Tiansong waives a contract which he'd refused to sign.

It says the tea company has rented out the land for another use.

The BBC's questions to the company went unanswered.

Local governments are eager to show they're doing what they can to fulfil Beijing's renewables push.

China is in a hurry.

The country's factories built more solar panels in the first half of last year than the rest of the world combined.

Some analysts believe China is so far ahead in renewable technology that it could take other countries decades to catch up.

In other words, China's not just powering its own future.

It has the potential to power all our futures.

Li Shou is from the Asia Society's Climate Hub.

is a resounding victory of China.

Their lead is so significant and so systematic so that it is irreversible at this point in time.

But there is evidence that some of China's own people are being left behind.