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Kirsty Needham

Kirsty Needham is China Correspondent for The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age

Boys look at a phone next to a coal-fired power plant on the outskirts of Beijing in November.

Beijing to replace coal fire with gas

The closure of Beijing's last big coal-fired power station, which dominated the skyline in the city's outskirts for 18 years, has been welcomed by environmental groups.