China’s Power Paradox: Record Renewables, Continued Coal

File image of a worker using a torch to cut steel pipes near the coal-powered Datang International Zhangjiakou Power Station in the northwestern Chinese city of Zhangjiakou. Photo by GREG BAKER / AFP

By Sara Hussein

Call it the China power paradox: while Beijing leads the world in renewable energy expansion, its coal projects are booming too.

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