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Snapshot
This week has been a busy week for China’s climate policy watchers. On Tuesday, Beijing quietly dropped its 14th five-year plan (FYP) for the energy sector, a much-anticipated document that sets the tone for the industry’s development from 2021 to 2025. The plan came on the same day as China’s vice premier stressed the importance of the “clean and efficient” use of coal.
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On Monday and Wednesday, the central government published two other national-level plans on energy. The former serves as what has been described as