“…However, China's traditional model of economic growth requires huge resource investment (e.g., labor, capital, land, and energy). The Chinese energy resource endowment, with the characteristics of "rich in coal, short in oil and gas," results in the typical imbalance of energy consumption structure in which coal is the principal energy source of industrial sectors and human life (Liu, Chen, Wang, Campana, & Yan, 2016;Marigo, Foxon, & Pearson, 2010). Meanwhile, it has led to many researchers predicting that coal will remain the biggest energy source for China in the foreseeable future (Meng & Xiong, 2018).…”