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China resorts to blackouts to achieve 11–5 targets

More anecdotal evidence about forced blackouts to achieve the 11-5 target, this time from The Guardian’s Jonathan Watts:

Anping County, in Hebei Province, cut electricity to homes, factories and public buildings for 22 hours every three days in a radical move that has highlighted both the serious last-minute effort that China is making to achieve environmental goals and the immense long-term difficulty of shifting away from a dirty, wasteful model of economic growth.

Full article.

Here’s my earlier post about China’s goal under the 11th 5-year plan with “5 months to go“.

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