Abstract: In the 13th Five-Year Plan and later periods, given the rare historic opportunity, the Chinese power industry will endeavor to adjust energy structure, control air pollution and reform end users’ energy consumption style, which will energize the transitions in electricity power development pattern. In this paper, the development situation of power industry in the 13th Five-Year Plan period is analyzed, and the strategies to resolve the dilemmas of balancing the relationships in different aspects for the 13th Five-Year Plan are proposed. In addition, some key issues related to the power demands, energy source supplies for power generation, power generation equipment installation and layout, new energy subsidies, power grid development, and power market reform are studied, which will be of great significance for making the 13th Five-Year Plan and energy policies.

Key words: power planning, 13th Five Year, major issue, judgment