ON A MUGGY July morning the museum of coal in Taiyuan, capital of Shanxi province, is bursting with visitors. An exhibit boasts of the province’s reserves of 650bn tonnes of coal. “Mining could last for over 200 years,” it enthuses. Asked if coal would still be dug up in that distant future, a guide nods eagerly, seemingly unaware of China’s green transition.
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