China's coal addiction has gotten worse since Xi Jinping's pledge to reduce the dependence on it.

From the climate desk on Mother Jones, 

In 2021, China’s leader Xi Jinping made two important promises intended to signal China‘s commitment to fighting climate change. At the Leaders Climate Summit in that April, he announced that China would “strictly control” coal generation until 2025 when it would start to gradually phase it out. He also pledged that year that China would reduce the energy intensity of its economy—the amount of CO2 used to produce a unit of GDP—to 65 percent below 2005 levels by 2030.

This month, as China unveiled its plans for the next five years, both promises appeared to be in trouble.  

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