In the opening session of the 19th Communist Party congress, president Xi Jinping pointed it out that by “taking a driving seat in international cooperation to respond to climate change, China has become an important participant, contributor, and torchbearer in the global endeavor for ecological civilization.”

In 2017, Energy Foundation China supported the Center for Environmental Education and Communications of the Ministry of Environment Protection, the Remin University, and the MediaQLab to develop a communications toolkit to help control disaggregated coal burning. Based on an analysis of user awareness, behavior, and feedback on disaggregated coal and its alternatives, the toolkit provides practical communications methods to promote stakeholder understanding and implementation of disaggregated coal control.

In 2017, Energy Foundation China supported the Center for Environmental Education and Communications of the Ministry of Environment Protection, the Renmin University, and the MediaQLab to research how residents in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region are using disaggregated coal and their environmental awareness, The resulting report analyzes experiences and challenges of promoting disaggregated coal control policies and provides comprehensive recommendations that will help policymaking.