Almost about a year after the impressive climate target pledge expressed by the Chinese President Xi Jinping at the 75th Session of The United Nations General Assembly in September 2020, where in pursuit of “a green recovery of the world economy in the post-COVID era” the country aimed at carbon neutrality by 2060, China found itself in the middle of an energy crisis that led to coal shortages, rampant fuel prices, and rationing of power supply and consumption.