New coal chemical becomes Inner Mongolia's green calling card

(chinadaily.com.cn)

Updated: 2014-12-08

Major projects in Inner Mongolia are underway.

According to the regional plan, Inner Mongolia is expected to realize 33.6 billion cubic meters of gas, 5.92 million tons of oil and more than 5 million tons of olefins by 2019, which will consume nearly 200 million tons of raw coal. The autonomous region will use roughly half of its raw coal by then, offer 150,000 job opportunities and achieve 400 billion yuan in GDP growth.

New economic growth

Enterprise is the main player in carrying out the coal chemical project. The autonomous region has introduced a group of big companies, including China Coal, Shenhua, Datang and Jiutai, and cultivated a batch of local leaders. Since the 2006-2011 period, the region has made full use of local resources and has planned a group of new coal chemical projects. The first units of national coal-to-oil, coal-to-olefin, coal-to-dimethyl ether, coal-to-methane gas and coal-to-ethylene glycol projects were all built in Inner Mongolia.

Technological innovation is a powerful engine of new coal chemical development. The autonomous region has built two national new coal chemical engineering centers and developed more than 100 new coal chemical patented technologies, including dozens of world-class ones.

"China abounds in coal resources, and speeding up efficient and clean utilization of coal resources is an important choice to ensure China's energy security," said Zhao Gang, deputy director of the energy bureau of the autonomous region's development and reform commission. "At the same time, the national action plan for the control of air pollution has clearly asked Beijing, Tianjin, Hebei and the Yangtze and Pearl river deltas to slash coal consumption, which offers Inner Mongolia a good opportunity and market space to build clean energy output facilities and speed up clean energy output."

Edited by Michael Thai