At 10:00 am on January 17, 2020, Dr. Cui Yijun from the University of Maryland was invited to visit and give an academic report entitled "Finding feasible coal phaseout pathways in China through a comprehensive plant-by-plant assessment".  Professor Yu Biying presided over the report, and the participants were teachers and students of the School of Management and Economics.

　　Dr. Cui Yijun is an assistant researcher at the University of Maryland Center for Global Sustainable Development (CGS) and holds a Ph.D. in environmental policy from the University of Maryland. At the same time, Dr. Cui is also an expert in global coal transformation and China's climate and energy policies. In CGS, she is responsible for the development and implementation of global coal analysis and decarbonization projects, and CGS China project portfolio. Her research focuses on climate change mitigation, sustainable energy transition, and comprehensive global and national assessment models. Prior to joining CGS, Dr. Cui worked at the Joint Global Change Research Institute on long-term food security under climate change mitigation, international agricultural trade and food demand, energy-food-water comprehensive assessment, and international carbon Market research.

　　In this report, Dr. Cui considered the deep decarbonization of China's power generation industry under the global target of 1.5 ° C and 2 ° C, combining bottom-up factory-level data and top-up data from GCAM-China and IPAC under the long-term deep decarbonization scenario, according to the global 1.5 ° C and 2 ° C scenarios, and  a decommissioning path for coal-fired power plants was designed to evaluate more than 1,000 existing coal-fired power plants in China (including nearly 3,000 independent units). The research shows that it is feasible to achieve the phase-out of 2 ℃ and 1.5 ℃ compatible coal power by 2050 or earlier, and the economic impact is relatively small. At the end of the report, we discussed the advanced technologies of cogeneration, CCS and other power generation industries, and the availability of research data, and took a group photo.