Who said anything about windmills?
China is replacing oil consuming vehicles with electric vehicles charged by coal burning power plants - hundreds of new ones on the drawing board and under construction.
They are intelligently substituting coal (which they have lots of - known reserves are 34 times yearly consumption) for oil (which they don’t have lots of - known reserves are 5.4 times yearly consumption)
The article did, go back and read it before posting. A major point of the article.