What next for clean heating in rural China?

Ten years after the launch of a campaign to clean up heating systems, improved subsidies, district heating and retrofits should be considered By: Niu Yuhan, China Dialogue This year marks the ten-year anniversary of a government campaign to clean up China’s heating systems. Until 2013, rural households in northern China generally burned coal for heat, with each stockpiling hundreds of kilograms in the run-up to winter. Burning coal in small domestic stoves can create ten times as much pollution as doing so in a power plant. Household burning of the fuel was also a major cause of winter smog. So, in 2013,