Linfen, a resource-rich city in North China's Shanxi province, has been promoting green, low-carbon, diversified, efficient and intelligent development of energy production and consumption in recent years. 

The city has implemented green mining and cut down on outdated production overcapacity to upgrade its coal industry. In 2019 and 2020, the city reduced coking production capacity by 10.9 million metric tons, accounting for 27 percent of the province's total. 

Green mining technologies and intelligent mining have been promoted in local collieries. By the end of 2020, six coal mines in Linfen completed pilot projects related to no-pillar mining and green mining technology, and four pilot intelligent coal mining platforms had been built in the city. 

The city has included intelligent and green coal development and utilization in its 14th Five-Year Plan (2021-25). 

By 2025, the city aims to cap the number of mines in the city at 100; maintain coal production capacity at about 120 million tons annually, and stabilize output at 100 million tons. All newly built mines install underground gangue intelligent sorting systems, and all coal mines realize intelligent operation.

Linfen has also been promoting the construction of a new comprehensive energy base. It is gradually forming an industrial chain and a circular economy model integrating the coal, coke, gas, chemical and hydrogen energy sectors.

The transformation of energy industries has pushed the city to improve its environment. 

The city has also completed a total of 71.13 million square meters of clean heating and renovation projects, benefiting 564,700 households, and all local buses are purely powered by electricity. 

According to Zhang Yuqing, director of the Linfen energy bureau, the city will speed up the construction of a clean, low-carbon, safe and efficient energy system, and make greater contributions to the realization of peak carbon emissions and carbon neutrality in Shanxi.