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China has “no other alternative” than to focus on coal power for the time being, according to an official

China has ambitious targets for reducing carbon emissions, but it will not abandon coal energy anytime soon, because it is focusing  on financial goals. President Xi Jinping said in September that the country’s carbon emissions would begin to decline by 2030, and that the country would achieve carbon neutrality by 2060 — in four years. […]