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Carbon Brief · United Kingdom · China passes employment five-year plan and releases global governance white paper
Carbon Brief's China Briefing flags the employment five-year plan's 'new energy system' employment clause as significant: the plan explicitly links job creation to the green-energy buildout, framing clean energy as a labour-market solution rather than a cost. Also notes parallel critical-mineral tensions with the West and a new industrial decarbonisation plan passed the same day.
“A separate five-year plan on employment included calls to 'unlock employment potential' by developing 'new energy system' projects.”