I am of the opinion we could convince china to abandon coal if we helped them get CANDU reactors off the ground.
Their current stock of nuclear reactors are not amazing and because of this a lot of their power production has been coming from coal. I’m not sure they ‘wanted’ to use coal as much as they were forced to due to technological and economic limitations.
Not to mention the plethora of misinformation surrounding nuclear reactors and nuclear waste, but I’m not certain how much of an impact that would have on decisions within the chinese government.