China has decommissioned 70.45 gigawatts (GW) of coal-fired plants in the last decade, and is building far more renewable energy capacity than any other country.
Coal power makes up about 70% of emissions in China, which has committed to being carbon neutral by 2060.
After 2025, it is unclear whether China will approve new coal plants.
But like many cities in China's coal country, coal revenues and jobs are an incentive to keep building.
Several workers in Yulin expressed little doubt about whether new coal plants make economic and environmental sense.
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Li, Gao Yuhe, Xu Mingjun, China's, Xie Zhenhua, Yuheng, Duan, Colleen Howe, Ella Cao, David Stanway, Tony Munroe, Gerry Doyle
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