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What this demonstrates is that China will use whatever the most efficient power generation is that gets electricity to the maximum number of people and industries for the lowest cost. They aren't installing solar because they want to save the world, they're doing it because it works. It's better than anything else on the market and so they're investing.
Notably, they are not installing nuclear power at the same rate. They plan to have 200 GW of nuclear capacity by 2035, but they're installing more than that in solar capacity every year. That should tell you something.