State-owned power company China Three Gorges Renewables Group will build an 8 GW solar farm as part of a nearly $11 billion integrated energy project.

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[–] 8 points 2 years ago (7 children)

great, but why are they still building 4GW of coal too?

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago* (6 children)

    Because they're still a developing country with a relatively low baseline power supply per capita (half that of the US).

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Second largest economy in the world, “still a developing country”.

    The people aren’t worse off because they’re not developed, they’re worse off because their government is even more corrupt.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

    Their economy is literally less developed. Country size has nothing to do with it; India is on track to surpass Japan's GDP but no one would dispute that it is much less developed than Japan or any other OECD country.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Their economy is super developed.

    The citizens are not reaping the benefits of that development.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago*

    No, if it was just a matter of having a well developed economy whose fruits are distributed poorly, then their GDP per capita (literally economic output divided by people) would be high.

    But it's not. It's among the middle-income countries, just below Malaysia. Which seems about right in terms of the quality of life of the average citizen.

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