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Since the "14th Five-Year Plan", the natural gas chemical industry has undergone self-optimization and adjustment of its industrial structure, strengthened and expanded its basic business, continuously saved energy, reduced costs and expenses, delved into internal potential tapping and efficiency improvement, persistently engaged in technological innovation and scientific research and development, strived to strengthen, extend and supplement the industrial chain, developed new downstream industries, and intensified the reform of state-owned enterprises. As a result, its core competitiveness has been significantly enhanced, and remarkable achievements have been made in high-quality development.

However, in recent years, with the continuous downturn of the global economy, the current situation of the industry has become increasingly severe, and the external environment has become more and more harsh. Natural gas chemical industry (such as urea, butanediol, polytetrahydrofuran, etc.) has long been facing the predicament of rapid release of domestic production capacity and an increasing number of new production capacity year by year. However, the slow commissioning of downstream industries such as urea and butandiol, the shrinking demand, the imbalance between supply and demand of products, the sluggish market, and the continuous decline in prices have become increasingly serious. The industry's losses have become a reality. Opening up new tracks and achieving transformation and development have become an inevitable choice for the natural gas chemical industry.

The following suggestions are put forward for opening up new tracks in the natural gas chemical industry during the 15th Five-Year Plan period:

The first is to adhere to the path of low-carbon development. The state should encourage and guide the maximum application of green electricity, minimize the consumption of high-quality resources such as natural gas, reduce the waste of non-industrial gas, free up sufficient natural gas for the element guarantee of natural gas chemical industry, drive the strengthening, extension and supplementation of the entire natural gas chemical industry chain, thereby creating a large number of jobs and tax revenue, and contributing to the take-off of the national economy.

Second, we will deeply build a low-carbon natural gas industrial chain, establish a new type of low-carbon natural gas industrial chain technology transformation pilot platform and industrial production integrated industrial base, develop and promote technical routes such as the preparation of high-value chemicals by Fischer-Tropsch synthesis of syngas and the coupling of low-carbon natural gas conversion with efficient utilization of biomass, actively integrate internal advantageous resources, and enhance original scientific and technological research and development. Master core and key technologies and actively seek to take over the technology transfer monopolized by European and American chemical giants. For instance, promote the industrial development of bio-based products such as α -olefins and bio-aviation fuel, and follow a development path of biomass resource utilization, high-endization and zero-carbonization, striving to become a leading enterprise or a top specialized, refined, distinctive and innovative enterprise.

Third, we should fully leverage the advantage of the enhanced competitiveness of natural gas chemical industry after the carbon tariffs imposed by Europe and the United States, and vigorously develop new downstream industrial chains of natural gas chemical industry. For instance, we should deepen the innovation of the butanediol industrial chain, restructure the upstream and downstream industrial pattern of natural gas - butanediol - polytetrahydrofuran, develop new business forms such as trimethylbutanediol and trimethylpolytetrahydrofuran, and build a butanediol industrial cluster.

Fourth, traditional fertilizer and chemical enterprises should have forward-looking thinking, make early plans, gradually withdraw from their old business, and ultimately completely break away from the traditional industrial growth mode and productivity development path. They should intensify "intelligent transformation and digital transition", open up new tracks, and develop new industries. For instance, transform and develop new materials, hydrogen energy, ammonia industry, as well as new industrial directions such as high-efficiency fertilizers and efficiency-enhanced fertilizers, and develop core technologies with independent intellectual property rights. For instance, extend to downstream industries of new materials such as polycarbonate, which feature a wide variety of products, low investment, short construction periods and quick returns. Develop high value-added industries such as polycarbonate modified materials, films and diphenyl carbonate chips. Actively promote independent innovation and research and development, achieve innovation-driven development, strengthen new quality production capacity, and promote the transformation and development of traditional natural gas chemical industry.