{"id":40999,"date":"2019-09-29T05:22:20","date_gmt":"2019-09-29T05:22:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=40999"},"modified":"2019-09-29T05:22:20","modified_gmt":"2019-09-29T05:22:20","slug":"china-struggling-to-kick-its-coal-habit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=40999","title":{"rendered":"China struggling to kick its coal habit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\">Inner Mongolia, China (CNN)<\/cite>On the coal-rich plains of Inner Mongolia, thick white smoke curls from the huge chimney of a thermal coal power plant which the Chinese Communist Party had pledged to stop constructing two years ago.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">The huge Mengneng Xilin Thermal Power Plant&#8217;s third unit, expected to deliver 700 megawatts of power to China&#8217;s north, was ordered to cease construction in January 2017.<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">The order came from China&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bjx.com.cn\/html\/20170116\/803648-2.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">National Energy Administration<\/a> as part of a government plan to eliminate millions of tons of <a href=\"http:\/\/english.mee.gov.cn\/News_service\/news_release\/201812\/P020181203536441502157.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;overcapacity&#8221;<\/a> caused by a rush of approvals and the construction of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xinhuanet.com\/\/english\/2017-08\/14\/c_136525357.htm\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;illegal&#8221; power plants.<\/a> It is also part of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2014\/11\/12\/world\/us-china-climate-change-agreement\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">President Xi Jinping&#8217;<\/a>s pledge to reduce the country&#8217;s reliance on coal and reach peak carbon emissions by 2030.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inner Mongolia, China (CNN)On the coal-rich plains of Inner Mongolia, thick white smoke curls from the huge chimney of a thermal coal power plant which the Chinese Communist Party had pledged to stop constructing two years ago.The huge Mengneng Xilin Thermal Power Plant&#8217;s third unit, expected to deliver 700 megawatts of power to China&#8217;s north,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":41000,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40999\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/41000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}