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So every unit is a little over one GW? Sounds good, but their plans is to only have 18% nuclear by 2060, so it seems that won't be their most important electricity source.
Here's the energy mix China's planning on by 2060, nuclear is around 19% so looks like it's roughly on target https://www.visualcapitalist.com/chinas-energy-transition-in-5-charts/
I had thought that China was expected to abandon fossil fuels by 2060, but 14% of the total energy will still be derived from fossil fuels. Maybe that is a more realistic outlook on things, though.
2060 is their net zero target. 10 years behind the West, but I'm incredibly confident that one of those is just tortured numbers with carbon offsets like buying trees that will never be cut down. I'll let you guess which