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August 17, 2026 5 seconds Guest Contributor 0 Comments Support CleanTechnica's work through a Substack subscription , on Patreon , or on Stripe . Help us produce all of the high-quality, original content we publish week after week despite the challenges of content-scraping AI, antisocial media, inflation, and other hurdles. China has published a new five-year plan for coal, the latest in a slew of important policy documents for the country’s energy transition.

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