Prostitution in China of such measures was to gradually reduce the number of brothels in each city until the point where a "Beijing-style" closure of the remaining brothels was deemed feasible and reeducation could begin. Reeducation programs were undertaken on the largest scale in Shanghai, where the number of sex workers had grown to 100,000 following the Second Sino-Japanese War. By the early 1960s, such measures had basically wiped out visible forms of prostitution from mainland China. According to the People's Republic of China (PRC) government, venereal diseases were almost completely eliminated from the mainland contemporaneously with the control of prostitution. To mark
Coal in China of 38.6% compared to the US with 37.4%. . In 2009, China required companies building new plants to retire an old plant for every new one built. In 2015, an IMF study showed that China has the largest cost of air pollution effects in the world. Coal in China China is the largest producer and consumer of coal in the world and is the largest user of coal-derived electricity. The consumption of coal has declined during the 2010s with its percentage in the energy mix falling from 80% in 2010 to 60% in 2017. Domestic coal production has also greatly