"Coal has made the Chinese economy what it is today. It provided all the cheap electricity and high heat needed to turn a poor agrarian economy of the mid 20th century into the high-tech, highly industrialized nation we know today. Without it’s massive domestic coal industry China could not have possibly made ‘the great leap forward’ let alone turning itself into the manufacturing hub of the world."

Coal: The Next Chokepoint
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