Gilles Sabrié for The New York TimesDONGGUAN, China — On the northern edge of a vast Chinese factory city, welding torches gleam as workers finish construction on a gas-fired power plant to replace one that burned coal and blanketed the surrounding neighborhood in a sooty pall.中国东莞——在中国这座巨大的工厂之城的北郊,闪烁着电焊的火光,工人们正在完成一个燃气发电厂的建设工作,新电厂将取代令周遭笼罩在烟尘下的燃煤电厂。
Agence France-Presse — Getty ImagesIn September, Mr. Xi announced at the United Nations that China would stop financing new coal power plants in other countries. Several U.S. experts said that was an important step, but not enough.今年9月,习近平在联合国大会上宣布,中国将停止在海外建设新燃煤发电厂。
John Kerry, President Biden’s international climate envoy, noted while in the city of Tianjin a month ago that China still plans to build 247 gigawatts of new coal power. That is nearly six times Germany’s entire coal power capacity. China’s plan “would actually undo the ability of the rest of the world” to restrain global warming to a relatively safe level, he said.拜登总统的国际气候特使约翰·克里(John Kerry)一个月前在天津时指出,中国仍计划建设总量为247亿千瓦的新燃煤发电厂 ... 阅读全文