Development plan for Hohhot, Baotou, Ordos and Yulin launched: Modern coal chemical industry is the core

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Development plan for Hohhot, Baotou, Ordos and Yulin launched: Modern coal chemical industry is the core focus Author/Source: Huahua Network – Coal Chemical Industry Date: 2018-03-12 Clicks: 24 Recently, the **Development and Reform Commission issued a development plan for the Hohhot, Baotou, Ordos and Yulin urban cluster**, aiming to turn it into a national hub for high-end energy and chemical industries, a strategic hub for expansion northward and westward, a region for collaborative efforts in ecological civilization development in the northwest, and a pilot area for integrated urban-rural development in ethnic minority areas. http://img.yf116.cn/image/img/20180312/920443364446.jpg Schematic diagram of the spatial layout of the Hohhot-Baotou-Ordos-Yulin urban agglomeration. The Plan calls for the creation of a spatial structure featuring \"one axis, one belt, and multiple areas\", by building on central cities, the Yellow River waterway, and ecological regions. Among them, the Hohhot-Baotou-Ordos-Yulin development axis relies on the Beijing-Baotou and Baotou-Maoxian transportation corridors; it emphasizes Hohhot’s role as a regional central city, strengthens the status of Baotou, Ordos, and Yulin as important regional hubs, enhances the supporting capabilities of areas such as Tumet Right Banner, Zhungeer Banner, Tokto County, Dalarat Banner, Yijinholo Banner, Shenmu City, and Jingbian County, and actively promotes coordinated development among neighboring cities. It accelerates the growth of key industries such as energy and chemicals, equipment manufacturing, and modern agriculture and livestock farming, as well as strategic emerging industries like new materials, big data and cloud computing, and biotechnology, along with modern service industries, thereby continuously improving the population and industrial aggregation capacity of the central city. Baotou City is focusing on the development of industries such as rare earth new materials, advanced metallurgy, modern equipment manufacturing, and the deep processing of green agricultural and livestock products, in order to create an incubation base for innovative enterprises within the urban cluster as well as a globally influential \"rare earth +\" industry hub. Ordos City is striving to become a center for the advanced processing of resources as well as a first-class demonstration base for the energy and chemical industry. Yulin City is upgrading its modern specialty agriculture, developing the high-end energy and chemical industry, and building bases for modern specialty agriculture as well as for high-end energy and chemical production. The Plan calls for joint efforts to develop four key industrial clusters: a high-end energy and chemical industry cluster, a metal processing and equipment manufacturing industry cluster, a cluster of strategic emerging industries, and a cluster for the production and processing of green agricultural and livestock products. High-end energy and chemical industry clusters. Allocate resources rationally, optimize the industrial layout, and accelerate the advancement of high-end development in energy and chemical industry clusters centered on clean energy and coal-based fine chemicals. Focusing on the integration of coal utilization, power generation, and heating, efforts will be made to promote the clean and efficient use of coal, while facilitating the orderly development of new energy sources such as wind, solar, and biomass energy. On the premise of fully considering the ecological environment capacity and water resource carrying capacity, steadily advance industrial demonstration projects for coal-to-oil and coal-to-gas conversion, accelerate the development of high-end fine chemicals based on coal, promote the transformation and upgrading of the semi-coke-based industries, and support Ordos and Yulin in building first-class modern coal chemical industry demonstration zones. Strategic emerging industry clusters. It supports Baotou in leveraging its military industry foundation to focus on the development of new rare earth materials, nuclear fuel components, graphite (and related materials), etc., and to build a **-level base for new rare earth materials as well as technology R&D centers. It supports Ordos, Yulin, and Baotou in leveraging their coal chemical industry foundations to develop new chemical materials, as well as high-quality magnesium alloys, aluminum alloys, polycrystalline silicon, and other new materials. Support Yulin in becoming a base for the new energy and new materials industries. The Huhhot-Baotou-Ordos-Yulin region is rich in coal, oil, and gas resources. The Plan proposes to improve the regional oil and gas pipelines by taking into account the development of natural gas resources in the Ordos Basin as well as the construction of coal-to-gas projects. Encourage diversification of investors in oil and gas pipelines, and focus on advancing the construction of cross-provincial and cross-regional long-distance oil and gas pipelines such as the Shaanxi-Beijing Line 4, Ordos-Anping-Cangzhou Line, West-East Gas Transmission Line 3, and the coal-to-gas pipeline in western Mongolia. Explore the construction of chemical product transportation pipelines that connect Ordos and Yulin to the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region and the eastern coastal areas. Make comprehensive use of various gas sources such as natural gas and coal-derived gas, accelerate the construction of inter-regional pipelines, strengthen the development of branch pipelines at the county level, advance the gasification process in a scientific and orderly manner based on the supply volume from upstream sources, and gradually establish an integrated circular natural gas network. The four cities of Hohhot, Baotou, Ordos, and Yulin consist of two large cities, Hohhot and Baotou, as well as two medium-sized cities, Ordos and Yulin. An industrial system centered on industries such as energy, chemicals, metallurgy, new materials, equipment manufacturing, and processing of agricultural and livestock products has been essentially established. The region is rich in energy and mineral resources such as coal, oil, natural gas, rare earths, graphite, rock salt, and iron ore. It has abundant wind and solar resources, as well as a wealth of natural and cultural assets including grasslands, deserts, wetlands, the Yellow River, the Great Wall, and ancient cities. There is great potential for resource complementarity and cooperative utilization among different cities.