New version of the Guiding Catalogue for Industrial Structure Adjustment released

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**On November 6, the National Development and Reform Commission published the \"Guidance Catalog for Industrial Structure Adjustment (2019 Edition)\) on its official website, which will come into effect on January 1, 2020. The “Catalog” covers 1,477 entries across 48 industries, including 821 items that are encouraged, 215 items that are subject to restrictions, and 441 items that should be phased out. There are 13 restrictions in the petrochemical industry. Among them, ethylene glycol with a production capacity of 200,000 tons per year or less, caprolactam with a production capacity of 100,000 tons per year or less, acetic acid produced by the ethylene method, acetic acid produced by the carbonylation method with a production capacity of 300,000 tons per year or less, methanol produced from natural gas (excluding natural gas with a CO2 content of over 20%), and coal-based methanol production facilities with a production capacity of 1 million tons per year or less fall under the category of facilities subject to restrictions. The construction of new facilities for producing nitrogen fertilizers using petroleum and natural gas as raw materials, which employ fixed-bed batch gasification technology for ammonia synthesis and the copper wash process for purifying the raw gas used in ammonia synthesis, falls under the category of restricted projects. There are 10 major categories of industries to be phased out in the petrochemical sector. Among them, liquid-phase desulfurization using semi-water gas and ammonia water, the synthesis of ammonia through atmospheric-pressure batch conversion of natural gas, atmospheric-pressure conversion of carbon monoxide as well as full medium-temperature conversion (high-temperature conversion) processes, wet desulfurization processes without accompanying sulfur recovery units, fixed-bed batch gasification units without associated equipment for recovering waste heat from purge gas or for comprehensive utilization of gasification furnace slag, and urea production facilities without corresponding devices for hydrolytic desorption of condensate fluids all fall into the category of processes to be phased out.