According to Xinhuanet news, Xi Jinping emphasized during a recent inspection in Yulin City, Shaanxi Province that coal, as my country’s main energy source, must follow the development direction of green and low-carbon, benchmarking to achieve the goals of carbon peak and carbon neutrality, based on national conditions, and control the total amount. Hold the bottom line, orderly reduce and replace, and promote the transformation and upgrading of coal consumption.
Xi Jinping emphasized that the coal chemical industry has huge potential and promising future. It is necessary to improve the comprehensive utilization efficiency of coal as a chemical raw material, promote the high-end, diversified, and low-carbon development of the coal chemical industry, and take the strengthening of scientific and technological innovation as the most urgent task and accelerate the key core. Technological breakthroughs, and actively develop coal-based special fuels, coal-based biodegradable materials, etc.
The need to ensure national energy security
My country is "poor in oil, less gas, and relatively rich in coal", which determines that my country's energy utilization structure is dominated by coal for a long time. Vigorously developing modern coal chemical industry can give full play to the relative resource advantages of coal energy, guarantee national energy security, and effectively alleviate the contradiction between oil and natural gas supply and demand. Through coal chemical industry to develop oil and natural gas substitute products and provide basic chemical raw materials, to realize the substitution of some imported oil products, and to control my country's foreign dependence on crude oil within 50%, which can effectively alleviate the energy security of my country due to rich coal and lack of oil. Challenges are conducive to ensuring national energy security and promoting sustainable economic development. It can be said that the country initially developed the coal-to-liquid industry out of energy strategic security considerations.
Promote efficient and clean use of coal
On September 15th, Yulin City, Shaanxi Province just issued the "Notice on Ensuring the Completion of Energy Consumption Dual Control Target Tasks in 2021"! The maximum production limit is 60%! The document stated that some key energy-consuming enterprises will be subject to regulation measures such as production restriction and production suspension, and the regulation time will last as long as 4 months! Among them, the newly built "two highs" projects must not be put into production; the newly built "two highs" projects that have been put into production will limit the production by 60%; the remaining "two highs" projects will reduce the production load and limit the production by 50%! Under the dual-carbon goal, the development of coal chemical industry is facing huge challenges. The policy side will put more control on the two high-level projects, and the promotion of efficient and clean use of coal is the future development direction.
The coal-based special fuels and coal-based biodegradable materials mentioned by President Xi are outstanding technical applications of modern coal chemical industry. Significantly improve coal conversion efficiency and product added value, which is more in line with the direction of green, high-efficiency and low-carbon utilization of coal. At the same time, the development of modern coal chemical industry is also conducive to driving the adjustment and optimization of traditional coal chemical structure. Inefficient and backward coal utilization methods will be gradually eliminated, and the proportion of clean and efficient conversion will be further increased.
Typical representatives of modern coal chemical industry include direct coal liquefaction, coal gasification, synthetic gas Fischer-Tropsch synthesis (indirect coal liquefaction), large-scale coal-to-methanol, methanol-to-olefins, methanol-to-aromatics, coal-to-ethylene glycol, and coal-to-natural gas.
Provide new demand growth points for the local economy
My country’s coal resources are mainly distributed in the central and western regions, and years of development of the coal industry continue to contribute to the local economy. In the process of achieving carbon neutrality, converting coal into fine chemicals on the spot can not only provide new momentum for the local economy, but also It will also delay the decline in coal demand and give local governments sufficient time and space to achieve transformation.
In recent years, the new coal chemical industry has developed rapidly, and coal chemical industry projects across the country have started construction. Under the guidance of national industrial planning and local planning, relatively prominent industrial clusters have basically formed. In the future, coal chemical industry will be mainly concentrated in the eastern coastal areas with rich coal resources such as Inner Mongolia, Shanxi and Shaanxi, and technologically developed eastern coastal areas such as Shandong, Hebei and Jiangsu.
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