China only approved 14 new coal-fired power plants with a capacity of 10.3 gigawatts in the first half of 2024. As a new survey by Greenpeace East Asia shows, 80 percent fewer new coal-fired power plants were approved than in the first half of 2023. In the previous two years, China had approved a combined total of almost 200 gigawatts of new coal-fired power plant capacity. Gao Yuhe, the project manager of Greenpeace East Asia, hopes that the slump in approvals „may be a turning point“.