they have a large population, largest in the world, India second (or not, I don't recall) and with a growing middle class (it alone now larger than the entire population of the US) with western consumption patterns and expectations they have insane power demands and projections.
So, more renewables than anywhere else, more nuclear than anywhere else, and more coal than anywhere else.
That said, they build new coal plants that are state of the art and "less bad" than the many older coal plants they are ripping apart. They also use coal power to supply energy to transition off of coal and create solar farms, etc.
they have a large population, largest in the world, India second (or not, I don't recall) and with a growing middle class (it alone now larger than the entire population of the US) with western consumption patterns and expectations they have insane power demands and projections.
So, more renewables than anywhere else, more nuclear than anywhere else, and more coal than anywhere else.
That said, they build new coal plants that are state of the art and "less bad" than the many older coal plants they are ripping apart. They also use coal power to supply energy to transition off of coal and create solar farms, etc.
"It's complicated"
See:
https://www.iea.org/countries/china (and drill down)
https://www.iea.org/reports/world-energy-investment-2024/chi...
https://www.iea.org/reports/meeting-power-system-flexibility...
compare and contrast with other countries (according to the IEA) and then look at other non IEA big picture summaries.