China is building new coal plants. https://www.greenpeace.org/eastasia/press/7488/plans-for-new...

China announces plenty, breaks ground for less. Announcements are cheap. Likely, they will not end up fueling any they do build, because it costs too much.

China's command economy creates perverse incentives that do not translate to the outer world. And, announced plans often do not reflect reality.

They have also announced >200 new nukes, and last I checked had broken ground on three. I doubt those will end up operating, even if finished, because of cost. But they might be, because [see above].

China has tripled their nuclear power generation capacity from 2014 to 2019 and doubled its share of the generation mix. I can't think of any reason they'd stop.

They're planning on building 30 reactors in OBOR countries by 2030 [2] and 150 domestic ones by 2035.

> China is one of the world's largest producers of nuclear power. The country ranks third in the world both in total nuclear power capacity installed and electricity generated, accounting for around one tenth of global nuclear power generated.

They're going to be a global nuclear powerhouse.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power_in_China

[2] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-nuclearpower/china-...

And then will mothball them all in a few years when they become unable to produce at a competitive cost.

They will produce a lot of kWh and displace a lot of CO2 in the meantime. But nowhere near what the same money spent on solar and wind would have.