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<div id='article-page'><div id='article-content' data-media-url='//news-app-staging.s3.amazonaws.com' data-base-url='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/5524/A.wav' data-capture-url='//staging.analytics.lingraphica.com/events/capture_news' data-article-title='China Promotes Coal-burning Again' data-article-id='6087'><script src='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com/javascripts/getscripts.js'></script><link rel='stylesheet' href='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com/stylesheets/article.css' type='text/css' /><div class='article'><p><span data-start-time='0' data-end-time='8708'>China is planning to increase coal production by a reported 300 million tons this year. </span> <span data-start-time='8708' data-end-time='17500'>Observers say the government hopes such a plan will renew the country’s slow-growing economy.</span> <span data-start-time='17500' data-end-time='29208'>However, critics say increasing coal production will hurt efforts to reduce climate-changing carbon emissions.</span> <span data-start-time='29208' data-end-time='42458'>The amount of the reported increase would represent seven percent of China’s total coal production in 2021 --- 4.1 billion tons.</span> <span data-start-time='42458' data-end-time='50083'>China is one of the biggest investors in wind and solar energy. </span> <span data-start-time='50083' data-end-time='60333'>But recently its leaders called for more coal-burning power after economic growth fell last year. </span> <span data-start-time='60333' data-end-time='66875'>Power shortages caused power failures and factory shutdowns. </span> <span data-start-time='66875' data-end-time='76938'>Russia’s attack on Ukraine added to worries that foreign oil and coal supplies might be disrupted.</span> <span data-start-time='76938' data-end-time='89375'>Coal is important for “energy security,” government officials said at an April 20 meeting that approved plans to expand production. </span> <span data-start-time='89375' data-end-time='96000'>That information was reported by the business news publication Caixin.</span> <span data-start-time='96000' data-end-time='103979'>The ruling party also is building power plants to help grow China’s economy.</span> <span data-start-time='103979' data-end-time='117500'>World governments have promised to try to limit warming of the atmosphere to 2 degrees Celsius above the level of pre-industrial times. </span> <span data-start-time='117500' data-end-time='124583'>Leaders say what they really want is a limit of 1.5 degrees Celsius.</span> <span data-start-time='124583' data-end-time='139917'>Scientists say even if the world hits the 2-degree goal, the world still faces threats of higher seas, stronger storms and extinctions of plants and animals. </span> <span data-start-time='139917' data-end-time='149625'>Scientists also expect more people to die from heat, air pollution and infectious diseases.</span> <span data-start-time='149625' data-end-time='156083'>China is the top producer and consumer of coal. </span> <span data-start-time='156083' data-end-time='166146'>The Chinese government has avoided joining other governments that promised to end the use of coal-burning power.</span> </p></div><div class='control-buttons-sticky' style='display:none;'><div class='control-buttons'><button title='Back' class='back' disabled='disabled'></button><button title='Play' class='play' disabled='disabled'></button><button title='Pause' class='pause' style='display:none;'></button><button title='Forward' class='forward' disabled='disabled'></button><button class='finished-reading' style='display:none;'>Done</button></div></div></div><div id='article-media'><div id='media-image'><img src='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/5524/A.jpeg'/></div></div><div id='question-content' style='display:none;'><div class='sentence_completion_question question-container' data-question-id=18563 data-hint-location='0' style='display:none;'><div class='question' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/5524/china_is_planning_to_increase_coal_production_by_a_reported_300_million_tons_this__blank__.wav'>China is planning to increase coal production by a reported 300 million tons this <span class='blank'>year</span>. </div><div class='choices' data-correct-choice='year'><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/5524/year.wav'><span>year</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/5524/yarn.wav'><span>yarn</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/5524/yeah.wav'><span>yeah</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/5524/yolk.wav'><span>yolk</span></div></div></div><div class='multiple_choice_question question-container' 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