China has huge coal reserves. Don't see why it should refrain from exploiting them.
HOWEVER, there is a strange trick involved here. From the weather models I've seen if China burns coal from smokestacks without employing pollution-control technology then China's harvests may be ruined and its citizens suffer from respiratory disease BUT global warming will be alleviated by all the sulfur dioxide emissions. If, however, China employs pollution-control technology city air will be breathable and crops robust, but global warming will accelerate and freakish weather ensue, threatening such key pieces of infrastructure as the Three Gorges Dam.
Difficult policy choices are ahead. And if you don't make those choices, that, too, is a choice. The old Chinese bureaucracy took the last route and messed up big time, deceiving emperors for its own benefit, leading to China's near-dismemberment. Does today's China have better habits than the old?