China has tasked Shanxi, its largest coal-producing province, with modeling the transition to clean energy (Subscriber Exclusive)
The sides of the roads surrounding this city in northern China are coated in a thick layer of coal dust. It falls off trucks hauling the black rocks to power plants, steel factories, and chemical plants across the nation. Here in Shanxi, the largest coal-producing province in a country that accounts for half the world’s coal burning, mines have been dug under one-eighth of the land’s surface.
Thus a lot is riding, for China and the world, on the success of the pilot project now underway in Shanxi. Local officials, feeling the pressure, whisper about how Beijing expects their offices to make strides on climate goals but offers little oversight or funding. Last year, coal burning in China set another record, increasing 4.6 percent as the economy roared back after the COVID lockdowns of 2020. A very hot summer and floods in coal-mining areas put unexpected pressures on the energy system, leading toBeijing responded in part by ordering mines to ramp up coal production. That has meant Shanxi has had to dig out more coal than before even while piloting the “energy revolution.
“Growth is the main theme,” says Li Shuo, a senior climate and energy policy officer for Greenpeace East Asia. “Decarbonization is still an afterthought.”reduce the economy’s reliance on heavy industry “Datong city relies on coal,” says Cao Hongji, a 52-year-old retired machinery worker who spent 30 years working in coal mines around Datong.
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