It is like that BS propaganda that showed up recently that China did not grow at all because its cities are not emitting enough night light.
You would think that a country which built a high speed rail network larger than the rest of the world put together, built 9 of the largest 10 metro networks in the world, plus a gargantuan amount of bridges and highways, and installed more wind and solar power than the rest of the world put together as well, all of this over just the last 10 years, would be growing. But not according to these shysters.
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Per capita electricity consumption in China over the past decade basically doubled.
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Per capita electricity consumption in China surpassed Brazil's sometime in 2006. Also, not on this chart, but in 2022 China had electricity consumption per capita of 6,199 kWh vs 4,813 kWh in the UK. So China basically surpassed the UK in that metric already.