Ecological restoration brings economic return

While renewable energy is playing an increasingly important role in China's green energy transition, coal mining still exists in some areas. In these areas, the government and local industry are taking steps to reduce the environmental impact, improve sustainable development and increase economic gains for local people.

In the coal-mining town of Narisong in the Inner Mongolia autonomous region, locals say that not only is the air quality improving, but their wallets are getting fatter, too.

The town of around 30,000 people has undergone five years of green reforms, which have seen its ecological landscape improve and economic growth increase.