Western media gave big play to Chinese President Xi Jinping telling the UN General Assembly that China will no longer build coal-fired powers abroad. This does not mean that China is shutting down plants at home however. As a matter of fact, both coal imports and domestic output increased this year. China’s raw coal output rose 0.8% year on year to 340 million tonnes last month, and China’s coal imports surged 35.8% year on year to 28.05 million tonnes in August, Xinhua reports.
China’s China National Nuclear Corp. is planning to build 30 nuclear power units along the Belt and Road by 2030.
