Xi Says Green Projects Will Anchor China’s Overseas Spending
- New Belt and Road priorities include clean energy investment
- China faced criticism for building fossil-fuel infrastructure
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Delegates from developing nations are leaving meetings in China this week with grand promises of aid for green energy projects, though there are few concrete projects so far.
Whether from Caribbean countries to colder, landlocked locales, leaders were consistent in their messages at the Belt and Road Forum in Beijing: Their nations are being ravaged by climate change, and China is in a unique position to help as the world’s largest producer of everything from solar panels to batteries.