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Beijing has been criticized by the U.S. and environmental groups over projects adding to pollution in developing countries.

Chinese President Xi Jinping on Tuesday said Beijing would stop building coal-fired power plants abroad, in a public commitment to redirect the country’s huge engineering industry away from adding to a source of global pollution.

Beijing has faced pressure from the U.S., the European Union and environmental groups for having continued to finance and build coal-fired power plants in many developing countries, even as it said it would cut greenhouse emissions at home.

Read more at: At U.N., China’s Xi Commits to Stop Building Coal Plants Abroad – WSJ