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15 Chinese plants that will turn coal into gas
Last updated on: April 18, 2013 09:22 IST
Image: An aerial view shows vehicles travelling on intersections at night in downtown Shanghai. Photographs: Aly Song/Reuters
China, the world's top energy user, wants to turn coal in remote areas into gas and then pipe it to cities, where residential and industrial use for the fuel is growing rapidly.
From coal miners to power producers, from private firms to state energy giants, companies are in a push to convert China's abundant and cheap coal into gas, using a mix of locally developed and imported technology similar to that used to produce synthetic fuel in apartheid-era South Africa.
Beijing has approved four pilot projects able to supply 15 billion cubic metres of natural gas a year by 2015.
Let's have a look at some plants that China hopes will help boost its energy supply.
Image: A hundred-meter-long (328 feet) lantern, featuring a dragon and made of 10,000 used compact discs and auto parts, is lit up in Hami, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. Photographs: China Daily/Reuters
Image: Contestants race camels during a winter Naadam event in Hulun Buir, north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. Photographs: China Daily/Reuters
Image: 'Hadas', pieces of silk used as a greeting gift among the Mongol minorities, are displayed at a park in Xilinhot, Inner Mongolia. Photographs: Bobby Yip/Reuters
Image: Shepherds lead their flocks of sheep and cattle along on the Guozigou segment of the Lianyungang-Horgos expressway as vehicles drive past the other side of the expressway, in Xinjiang Uyghur autonomous region. Photographs: China Daily/Reuters
Image: Tourists wave as they travel around the Kumtag Desert by a sightseeing train at a scenic spot in Turpan, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. Photographs: China Daily/Reuters
Image: A local farmer leads a row of camels at a tourism resort of the Kumtag Desert in Shanshan county, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. Photographs: China Daily/Reuters
Image: Tourists in donkey-drawn carriages visit the ancient city of Gaochang, Turpan, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. Photographs: China Newsphoto/Reuters
Image: Tourists take pictures outside the Xinjiang International Bazaar, a major trading complex, in Urumqi, capital of northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. Photographs: Andrew Wong/Reuters
Image: Labourers work on building a highway to connect Kashgar and Aksu by the end of October 2013 in Aksu, Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region. Photographs: Stringer/Reuters
