As a cooperation demonstration area between the country’s eastern, central and western regions and one of the seven petrochemical bases in China, Lianyungang has given full play to the role of the national strategies, and gone all out to promote the construction of a world-class petrochemical industry base, injecting strong momentum into urban development.
On May 16, the 67.7-billion-yuan Shenghong refining and chemical integration project was put into production in the Xuwei New Area of Lianyungang, marking the official commissioning of the single largest refining and chemical integration project in China.
This national petrochemical industry planning and layout key promotion project has opened up the industrial chain of crude oil refining and high-end chemical industry, and greatly compensated for the supply rate of high value-added and scarce chemical products such as olefins and aromatics.
In the future, the project can realize the mutual supply of more than 80% of raw materials and products in the Lianyungang petrochemical industrial base, which will reduce the import of basic chemical raw materials in China by about 10%.
Yu Huiyong, General Manager of Shenghong Refinery (Lianyungang) Co., Ltd.
This project has greatly improved
the self-sufficiency rate
of China's bulk basic chemical raw materials
effectively reduced import dependence
and will also promote
the transformation and upgrading
of the manufacturing industry
Spearheaded by Shenghong Petrochemical, with the goal of carbon peaking and carbon neutrality, Lianyungang Xuwei New Area Petrochemical Base is continuing to promote the development of a number of high-end petrochemical industry clusters.
Lu Zhongbao, Deputy Director of the Management Committee of Xuwei New District, Lianyungang City
The various basic raw materials
of the leading projects
are maximized and utilized within the base
forming a large industrial cycle
of mutual supply of raw materials
and effectively realizing the extension
of the industrial chain and the supplementary chain
By the end of the year
the industrial taxable sales revenue
of Xuwei New District
will exceed 100 billion yuan
From a barren salt flat to a modern petrochemical industry base, from an industrial low-lying land to an important part of the global chemical chain, over the past ten years, Lianyungang has completed a fixed asset investment of over 213 billion by seizing a series of strategic opportunities for the National East-China-West Cooperation Demonstration Zone and coastal development.
Xuwei New District has introduced 30 major petrochemical projects including Shenghong Petrochemical, Satellite Chemical, and Sinochem International, with a total investment of more than 320 billion yuan.
Since the beginning of this year, in the face of the adverse impact of the epidemic, Lianyungang has continued to optimize the business environment, solved various difficulties in the resumption of work and production, and ensured the smooth start of industrial projects.
Xu Binshan, Director of Major Project Office of Lianyungang City
We will rely on the existing industrial advantages
to strengthen services, increase cultivation
to help a series of major projects
to be completed and put into production
continue to work together
to build a world-class petrochemical industry base
and strive to achieve
an annual industrial taxable sales income
of 300 billion yuan
by the end of the "14th Five-Year Plan"
so as to make the project
an important economic growth pole
for the coastal development of Jiangsu
and even the entire country
From January to April, Lianyungang reported 33.26 billion yuan of taxable sales income of the petrochemical industry, a year-on-year increase of 50%.
The industrial enterprises above designated size reported annual growth of 13% and 6.4% in the total output value and industrial electricity consumption from the same period of last year, ranking first in the province.
