China and the United States are the two biggest superpowers in the world and thus produce the most fossil fuels into our atmospheres. China can set the global stage of becoming more invested into renewable energy and cutting fossil fuel levels. With this, hopefully other industrial countries can use China as a role model, but also be wary of the major errors the country has undergone. The country growing its direction to become the highest consumer of oil, which would help sustain the country, but cause further rise in fossil fuels (Alessi, …show more content…
China’s large land mass and long coastline supports an excellent potential of wind power. As electricity is in higher demand each year for China, coal-generated electricity stays consistent. With the size of China’s economy, a study showed that a 900 billion-dollar investment could replace 640 GW of coalfired power (Block, 2016). By connecting high voltage transmissions lines to these areas can support the rising demand from China in a sustainable