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4.3.2 Optimize to Development Fossil Fuels
China not only strongly promotes the development of such renewable energies
as wind, solar, biomass energies, as well as nuclear power, but also lays great
emphasis on the exploitation of such cleaner energies in fossil fuels as oil, natural
gas, and the clean utilization of coal.
4.3.2.1 Advance the Rapid Growth of Natural Gas Production
In the future, China's natural gas is expected to enjoy a fast development. It is
estimated that, by 2020, natural gas utilization volume will reach 300 billion cubic
meter. Natural gas development strategy of China in next 10 years is: strengthen
domestic natural gas exploration, boost the rapid growth of conventional production
of natural gas, promote the development and utilization of unconventional natural
gas resources including coal bed gas, shale gas etc, search for overseas natural gas
supply to realize a safe and stable supply of natural gas.
4.3.2.2 Stabilize the Development of Oil Industry
As the sharp increase of vehicle population, China's demand on oil in the future will
continue to rise. However, it is regarded that, crude oil production in China has
entered into a stable peak, that is, except for discovery of large major reservoirs, it
will not increase in a large extent. Under the condition of limited domestic crude
oil, crude oil dependence on foreign countries continues to rise and the situation
is hard to change. Therefore, development strategy and guideline of China's oil
industry in the future is: pay great efforts to save, strengthen exploration, conduct
import and replace in large scale.
4.3.2.3 Boost the Clean Use of Coal
In the coming 10 years, as the rapid development of non-fossil fuels including
nuclear power, hydroelectricity, wind power, solar and photovoltaic generation,
as well as the steadily promotion of low-carbon fossil fuels including natural gas,
it is predicated that proportion of coal in primary energy consumption will be on
decline. However, based on the energy situation of Rich in Coal, lack of Oil and
Short of Gas, coal-based energy consumption structure will not undertake a funda-
mental change for a long period of time. Coal will remain to be a major energy in
China's energy consumption. Future coal utilization shall develop safe and efficient
coal mine, promote coal resource integration and merging and reorganization of
coal enterprises, meanwhile, conduct clean utilization of coal energy. Change
completely the coal industry image of high danger, pollution, extensive type and
disorder, and walk on the way of high resource utilization, good economic benefit,
small environmental pollution and sustainable development. Such measures shall
be taken as: promote the reorganization of coal industry, develop safe and efficient
coal mine, increase the washing rate of raw coal, conduct R&D Demonstration
including Substitute Natural Gas, Coal-to-liquid fuel and coal-based coproduction,
boost its industrialization development, as well as launch clean utilization of coal.
