China keen on action in global efforts against climate change

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25. It appears they have closed 71 GWe of old coal-fired plants since 2006

http://www.world-nuclear.org/info/inf63.html

"These capacity increase figures are all the more remarkable considering the forced retirement of small inefficient coal-fired plants: 26 GWe of these was closed in 2009 and 11 GWe in 2010, making 71 GWe closed since 2006, cutting annual coal consumption by about 82 million tonnes and annual carbon dioxide emissions by some 165 million tonnes. China is well advanced in developing and deploying supercritical and ultra-supercritical coal plants, as well as moving quickly to design and deploy technologies for integrated (coal) gasification combined cycle (IGCC) plants."

However, this link gives data that implies their coal consumption is still increasing despite the closure of inefficient coal plants: http://www.instituteforenergyresearch.org/2011/01/21/for-china-coal-is-still-king/

"Since 2000, China’s coal consumption has grown by 12 percent per year. The country now consumes 46 percent of the world’s coal consumption, compared with 13 percent for the United States.[viii] In 2009, China’s coal consumption was almost 3.5 billion short tons, up 16 percent from the year before, while the United States consumed 1.0 billion short tons in 2009, down 11 percent from the year before.[ix]"