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Last week, reporters from China Chemical Industry News learned from the Shaanxi Provincial Department of Ecology and Environment that as the only province in China to designate construction projects in the coal chemical industry as pilots for environmental impact assessment regarding carbon emissions, Shaanxi plans to expedite this work. The province has selected three provincial-level coal chemical projects as pilots: the China National Coal Group Yulin Coal Deep Processing Base Project, the Shaanxi Coal and Chemical Industry Group’s 15-million-ton coal quality conversion project, and the Shenmu Yuanxing Coal Chemical’s clean, efficient, multi-product coal processing project involving quality-based and grade-based conversion. It is required that starting from September 15, environmental impact assessment authorities must include an evaluation of carbon emissions when accepting environmental impact reports for construction projects in these pilot industries. At the beginning of September, the Shaanxi Provincial Department of Ecology and Environment issued a notice on carrying out pilot projects for environmental impact assessments of carbon emissions related to construction projects in key industries, and introduced the \"Technical Guidelines for Environmental Impact Assessments of Carbon Emissions in Coal Chemical Industry Construction Projects in Shaanxi Province (Trial Version)\”. At the same time, carbon emission surveys are conducted on the carbon emissions of coal chemical projects that are already in operation, in order to determine the industry’s carbon emission levels and the pathways for reducing carbon emissions ； Organize the development and improvement of methods for calculating carbon emissions, as well as standards and approaches for evaluating industry carbon emission levels, and explore evaluation techniques for the coordinated control of pollutants and carbon emissions. On this basis, an environmental impact assessment management system for carbon emissions from construction projects in the coal chemical industry will be established, specifying requirements for environmental impact assessment approval and emission permit management. According to introductions, the carbon emission assessment outlined in this “Technical Guide” applies to new construction, renovation, and expansion projects involving coal-to-methanol production; similar procedures should be followed for projects related to coal-to-ethylene glycol, coal-to-olefins, and coal-to-dimethyl ether. It specifies the general workflow, contents, methods, etc. for evaluating carbon dioxide emissions in project environmental impact assessments, and requires that a dedicated section on carbon emission assessment be included in the environmental impact report for construction projects. The dedicated chapter should include an analysis of the compliance of the construction project’s carbon emission policies, data collection, carbon emission analysis, carbon reduction measures and control requirements, carbon emission management and monitoring plans, as well as the conclusions of the carbon emission impact assessment. The Shaanxi Provincial Department of Ecology and Environment requires that environmental impact assessment approval agencies at all levels strictly enforce these regulations during the approval process, work together to integrate the management of industrial pollutants and carbon emissions reduction, curb the uncontrolled development of high-pollution and high-energy-consuming projects, and achieve a synergistic effect in reducing pollution and carbon emissions from the source. Among the 3 pilot coal chemical projects, the China Coal Yulin Coal Deep Processing Base project is a methanol production facility with an annual capacity of 2 million tons and a polyolefin production facility with an annual capacity of 900,000 tons, which was planned and constructed by the Chemical Division of China Coal Shaanxi Company ； The 15 million tons per year coal value-added conversion project of Shaanxi Coal Group is a facility planned and constructed by Yulin Chemical Co., Ltd. under Shaanxi Coal Group, featuring units for coal pyrolysis at 13.5 million tons per year, pulverized coke gasification, methanol-to-olefins production, coal tar hydrogenation, combined aromatics processing, and LNG production from coke oven gas, as well as projects for the further processing of olefins and aromatics. The coal value-added, graded, clean, and efficient co-production project is a 3 million tons per year coal-based materials and coal (fine-grained coal) project planned and constructed by Yuanxing Coal Industry & Chemical Co., Ltd. in Shenmu City, Shaanxi Province.