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China continuing their trajectory to start phasing coal out in 2030
China still lacks a coherent coal exit strategy. There is also no clear commitment in the current 15th five-year plan to call a halt to coal expansion (while it says that fossil fuel energy consumption would increase by 8-10%, reversing the slow-down in fossil fuel energy consumption during the 14th FYP period). This comes form the Chinese Communist Party.
You are making unfounded statements out of literally nothing, sometimes even in direct contradiction to the Chinese government itself. What you are saying is complete fantasy.
The way to turn everything into a “China good” narrative just to keep the propaganda going is really hilarious.
China’s coal production fell in June by almost 10% only as a result of a coal mine explosion in the Shanxi province in late May. As the country is temporarily not able to produce enough coal itself, it increased its June imports by more than 30% (while coal production in June fell just 10%).
In the first half-year 2026, the 1.7% increase of Chinese coal imports perfectly matched the country’s 1.7% production decline (which was, again, only due to a coal mine explosion rather than a deliberate policy decision).
Overall fossil power generation in China rose 0.5% year-on-year in June and 2% in Q2.
Nothing here is ‘good’.
China is still by far the world’s largest coal producer and consumer, and the country’s economy is still heavily reliant on coal and other fossil fuels. It will have to be seen whether this ‘milestone’ is sustainable or an effect of China’s slowing economy.
Meanwhile, the share of coal in electricity generation in the EU fell from 16% in 2022 to 12% in 2023, and it’s still going down.
Do you read your own links? The last one from Oxford Energy is a report published in 2020 (!) about the 14th fyp that has ended (and this is even the better part of your comment as it doesn’t even foster your own argument).
Here is another analysis by the Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air:
The power sector target is weak. The target for non-fossil sources to provide 50% of power generation by 2030 still leaves roughly half of China’s electricity generation coming from fossil fuels. Starting from the plan’s 2025 baseline of 42.3% non-fossil generation, if total power generation grows by 5% per year, total generation would be about 27.6% higher by 2030. Under a 50% non-fossil share, fossil fuel generation, especially from coal, could still rise by around 10.6% over the period and the target would still be met. The plan reiterates that coal consumption should peak during the 15th FYP period, but it has no quantitative cap on coal generation or capacity, nor any explicit roadmap for phasing down coal.
The new carbon intensity target for the power sector is even more conservative. The plan requires power sector carbon emissions per unit of generation to fall by more than 10% from 2025 level by 2030. Directionally, that is positive. But it does not imply an absolute fall in power-sector emissions. With 5% annual growth in power generation, a 10% reduction in carbon intensity would still allow power sector carbon emissions to increase by roughly 15% over the period, or almost 3% per year. To keep absolute power-sector emissions flat by 2030, carbon intensity would need to fall by roughly 22% if power generation grows by 5% per year. That makes the target look modest compared with recent progress. Ember estimates that China’s power sector carbon intensity fell to 525gCO2/kWh in 2025, down 5% from 2024. China’s official 2024 national electricity carbon footprint factor also fell by 6.9% year on year. [Emphasis mine.]
Addition: And, again, the Chinese Communist Party’s own 15th five-year plan says that fossil fuel energy consumption would increase by 8-10%, reversing the slow-down in fossil fuel energy consumption during the 14th FYP period. At the same time, China’s own goals for non-fossil energy additions would see China’s annual green energy additions fall by more than half by 2030.
Read the data in your own link: China’s emissions rose this century from less then 4 billion tons to more than 13 billions.
And this is only one part of the story. Read the article. Propaganda is what you are permanently doing.
Here you can see the countries and their contributions to climate change (hint: China, together with Russia, ranks among the worst).
81·9 months agoYes, according the the NGO Freedom House, a quarter of the world’s governments (48 states) are using tactics of transnational repression, but 10 are responsible for nearly 80 percent of all physical, direct incidents between 2014 and 2024.
The Chinese government remains the most prolific perpetrator, committing 272 incidents, or 22 percent, of recorded cases. The governments of Russia, Turkey, and Egypt are also leading offenders. Authorities in Tajikistan and Cambodia have received less attention despite being major perpetrators of transnational repression against targets in Europe and Asia.
Chinese Communist Party: Knows it’s far ahead.
Modi is hugging also Putin, another war criminal, not sure if this has anything to do specifically with Israel’s popularity in the country.
Modi has been hugging also Putin when they met in the last two years. Seems he should rethink his friendships …
It’s not only about the elite’s children in the West. Not long ago, a leaked wedding video lays bare luxurious lives of Iran’s political elite and highlights hypocrisy of Islamic Republic:
A short video of a private wedding went viral in Iran recently, tearing away the country’s veil of piety and exposing hypocrisy and a seeming disregard for the rules by which the theocratic regime requires that most Iranians live their lives.
The wedding in question was that of Fatemeh Shamkhani, in mid-2024. She is the daughter of Ali Shamkhani, a close adviser to Iran’s supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, at the luxurious Espinas Palace Hotel in Tehran.
She wore a low-cut strapless dress with a western-style bridal veil rather than the full head-covering mandated for Iranian women. Many wedding guests also wore modern western styles and a lot of the women went without head coverings […]
Just look at the linked website and you will see that literally all articles by this author echo the Chinese government’s propaganda narratives without providing verifiable and independent sources (OP’s post history has the same propaganda spin).
Xi Jinping has been advocating against social welfare on many occasions arguing that it would make people ‘lazy.’ It comes as no surprise that China’s social system is far behind compared to European countries, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, and many others. Inequality has also been rising in China in the last 10 years and is much higher than in all Western countries.
There is also ample evidence that China’s future for a fairer social system is bleak under the current regime as social and health policies are heavily skewed toward the urban, formal, and state sectors. As one report says,
In a system devoid of free elections, and where agriculture and rural areas have only a weak bureaucratic voice, farmers and migrant workers have minimal political clout and remain politically inactive at the national level. Consequently, social and health policies are heavily skewed toward the urban, formal, and state sectors, which are the loudest, best connected, and most articulate groups in Chinese society.
This bias is perpetuated by a political regime that places a high premium on maintaining stability … Autocratic leaders deliberately uphold a social welfare regime biased toward government officials and urban employees in the state sector and providing only limited social welfare to other urban dwellers and rural workers in the informal sector […]
Looking forward, as economic growth slows and the burden of providing the necessary social services for the elderly mounts, the expansion of the Chinese welfare state is likely reaching its limits.
And this report highlights just one major weakness of China so-called welfare system. Framing China as a welfare state, even if just better than the US, is a very bad joke.
‘Welcome to CHINA’ greets Philippine officials on trip to disputed South China Sea
- Philippine officials visit Thitu amid Chinese presence
- Roaming message says “Welcome to CHINA”
- Filipino fishermen say China stops them fishing best waters
- China claims most of South China Sea despite 2016 Hague ruling
Asking whether China, Russia, or the US will be the biggest threat to Australia,
- 31% say China is the biggest threat
- 17% say it is the US
- 5% say Russia
- 31% say all three are equal
Using the Trumpean decline into a dictatorship to whitewash China’s genocidal policies - by calling Xi a “stable dictator” or even calling China a reliable partner as it is often done - is odd to say the least.
In that respect the title is highly misleading, but it aligns with OP’s spin of spreading pro-China authoritarian propaganda narratives as their post history shows.
5·9 months agoAlarming Statistics: Retractions and China’s NSFC Sanctions Rock Chinese Academia
China leads global retractions, with studies showing 40% of biomedical papers tainted by misconduct per surveys. In 2025, NSFC [National Natural Science Foundation of China] disclosed multiple batches: 26 cases in April (plagiarism, data forgery) and 25 in July, affecting top institutions. 96 By early 2026, another 46 sanctions linked to 20 universities emerged.
- 2023 Hindawi: 8,200+ Chinese-linked retractions out of 9,600 total.
- NSFC 2025: 51 sanctions, including 11 proposal plagiarisms.
- Medical universities: 14.81% lack public RM [research misconduct] investigation records.
These figures underscore pressure from ‘publish or perish’ metrics at elite ‘Double First-Class’ universities, where 15% report incidents.
Good question. I wrote in another thread already that African countries are delivering mostly commodities while importing high-end products, and Africa has been facing a growing trade deficit with China over recent years. Africa’s dependence on China is growing as this kind of trade policy is a big obstacle to develop African industries and manufacturing capabilities.
It is also noteworthy that China uses this leverage for political purposes. For example, all African countries support China’s aggression against Taiwan and what Beijing “reunification” (which is false, as Taiwan was never part of mainland China). The only exemption here is Eswatini, a small country in the South of the African continent that maintains an embassy in Taipei, and Taiwan maintains an embassy in Eswatini’s capital Mbabane.
This is not a ‘trend’ but a controlled influence campaign by the Chinese party-state.
“As a Chinese person who has been online throughout years and years of heavy Sinophobia, it felt refreshing to have the mainstream opinion finally shift regarding China,” Claire, a Chinese-Canadian TikTok user, tells BBC Chinese.
There has been no “heavy sinophobia” but reports that were and still are critical about the Chinese government. Nor does the mainstream opinion now shift as people are still if not even more aware of Beijing’s atrocities. This is just an influencer saying something like that for money, and I would like to know who pays her.
The article itself says later:
[Chinese state media and the government] have sought to portray the US as a decaying superpower because of inequality, a weak social safety net and a broken healthcare system. According to a commentary in state-owned Xinhua, the “kill line” meme “underscores how far the lived reality can drift from the ideals once broadcast to the world”.
And:
It’s little wonder that Chinese authorities are pleased with Chinamaxxing […] Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson Lin Jian said […] he was “happy” to see foreigners experiencing the “everyday life of ordinary Chinese people”.
Sure, they are pleased. They control the entire campaign on social media.
As the article says at the end:
It’s hard to know what Chinese people make of so many things because all public conversation and activity is heavily policed. Criticising the government is risky and protests are quickly quashed.
Tere is a lot the memes making it to the West don’t show. China’s youth are facing an unemployment rate that sits at more than 15% and burning out from a gruelling work culture, yet sharing too much of their pessimism online could alert internet censors. They are worried about finding a home as the country’s property crisis continues, and dating is no easier than anywhere else.
Yes, and there is a lot more what is not displayed on Chinese social media given the state’s censorship.
The headline and the article are highly misleading imo. This is pure Chinese Communist Party propaganda.
This is not a ‘trend’ but a controlled influence campaign by the Chinese party-state.
“As a Chinese person who has been online throughout years and years of heavy Sinophobia, it felt refreshing to have the mainstream opinion finally shift regarding China,” Claire, a Chinese-Canadian TikTok user, tells BBC Chinese.
There has been no “heavy sinophobia” but reports that were and still are critical about the Chinese government. Nor does the mainstream opinion now shift as people are still if not even more aware of Beijing’s atrocities. This is just an influencer saying something like that for money, and I would like to know who pays her.
The article itself says later:
[Chinese state media and the government] have sought to portray the US as a decaying superpower because of inequality, a weak social safety net and a broken healthcare system. According to a commentary in state-owned Xinhua, the “kill line” meme “underscores how far the lived reality can drift from the ideals once broadcast to the world”.
And:
It’s little wonder that Chinese authorities are pleased with Chinamaxxing […] Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson Lin Jian said […] he was “happy” to see foreigners experiencing the “everyday life of ordinary Chinese people”.
Sure, they are pleased. They control the entire campaign on social media.
As the article says at the end:
It’s hard to know what Chinese people make of so many things because all public conversation and activity is heavily policed. Criticising the government is risky and protests are quickly quashed.
Tere is a lot the memes making it to the West don’t show. China’s youth are facing an unemployment rate that sits at more than 15% and burning out from a gruelling work culture, yet sharing too much of their pessimism online could alert internet censors. They are worried about finding a home as the country’s property crisis continues, and dating is no easier than anywhere else.
Yes, and there is a lot more what is not displayed on Chinese social media given the state’s censorship.
The headline and the article are highly misleading imo. This is pure Chinese Communist Party propaganda.
Yeah, South Africa’s exports to China in 2025 stood at USD 13.6 billion, up 9.6% year-on-year.
South Africa’s imports from China in 2025 grew to USD 24.9 billion, up 14.6%.
South Africa’s trade deficit with China has been growing in recent years.
South Africa is also supporting Beijing’s one-China policy and says Taiwan is part of China. Economic and political coercion works it seems.
Dude, do you understand the difference between ‘to peak’ and ‘to phase out’?
That aside, even if the coal’s share of the power mix was less than half in China in June, the total volume of coal-generated electricity has increased. This is not good news.
But there is no coal exit strategy in China.
And let me say that it’s not that you are wrong. We all tell bullshit from time to time. What’s absolutely weird and unacceptable is your way to communicate and your tonality. It’s this complete disconnected world view and often ridiculously false narratives paired with a weirdly stubborn I-know-it-better-than-anyone-else attitude.
I end this discussion now. Believe whatever you want.