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The preliminary review for the land selection and planning related to the construction of a coal-to-natural gas plant with an annual production capacity of 2.2 billion Nm in Junan has been completed. Author/Source: Huahua Net – Coal Chemical Industry. Date: June 30, 2020. Clicks: 6. Recently, the preliminary review for the land selection and planning necessary for the construction of this coal-to-natural gas plant was finished in Panji District, Junan, Anhui Province. Currently, the application related to these matters has been accepted by the Anhui Provincial Department of Natural Resources. The Zhunan project, with an annual production capacity of 2.2 billion Nm of coal-to-natural gas, produces natural gas using the high-ash and high-ash-melting-point coal from the Huainan region; it was built with joint investment from companies such as Waneng Group in Anhui Province and China National Coal Group Xinji Corporation. The total investment for the factory portion of the project is 1,535,600 million yuan, and the land area allocated for the project is 181.1473 hectares. This project meets the requirements of the **13th Five-Year Plan for the Development of Advanced Coal Processing Industries**. It has received the reply from the **Development and Reform Commission stating approval for the preliminary work related to the Anhui Zhunan coal-to-gas demonstration project** (Document No. Energy, Development and Reform Office (2014)818), and it has been assigned the project code 2016-000052-45-02-000112. The project site is located in Panji District, Huainan City, Anhui Province. The total land area is 198.6643 hectares. The land use is as follows: agricultural land accounts for 155.0712 hectares (of which 142.1838 hectares are arable land, without occupying any of the designated permanent basic farmland); construction land covers 43.4905 hectares; and unused land amounts to 0.1026 hectares. The land designated for the project is in line with the \"General Land Use Plan for Panji District, Zhuanan City, Anhui Province (2006–2020)\\" (as revised and improved); it does not occupy any permanently designated basic farmland, nor does it involve the use of areas designated as ecological protection zones. The project is located within 5 kilometers of the Huaihe River Ecological Economic Belt. The total land area for this project is 198.6643 hectares, of which the land areas for various functional zones are as follows: 181.1473 hectares for the natural gas plant (with the ash storage area located within the plant premises), 2.0108 hectares for the coal transfer wharf, and 15.5062 hectares for railway use. Based on the characteristics of the land use, this project conducts a land use analysis in three categories—natural gas plants, railway land, and coal transfer trestles—according to the specific requirements of the project. In accordance with the requirements of the “Notice of the Ministry of Land and Resources on Issuing and Implementing the Control Indicators for Land Use in Industrial Project Construction” (Land Resources Development [2008] No. 24), the total investment for the factory portion of the project is 1,535,600 million yuan, and the land area allocated for the project is 181.1473 hectares. Thus, the investment intensity is 8,477.0792 million yuan per hectare, which meets the standard of “not less than 865 million yuan per hectare”. The area occupied by various buildings, structures, and storage areas within the project is 84.2650 hectares, accounting for 46.52% of the total project land area, in line with the standard of “not less than 30%”. The area designated for administrative offices and living facilities is 3.2500 hectares, representing 1.79% of the total project land area, satisfying the requirement of “not more than 7%”. The green space area is 27.1720 hectares, accounting for 15.0% of the total land area, which complies with the standard of “not more than 20%”. The land required for the railway is 15.5062 hectares. According to the \"Indicators for Land Use in New Railway Project Construction\" (Jian Biao (2008) No. 232), the land required for freight station operations and shunting tasks of 6.0 Mt capacity is 18.6667 hectares; therefore, it meets the land use standards for new railway projects. The \"Anhui Province Standards for the Use of Land for Construction\" (2013 edition) do not include guidelines regarding land use for coal transfer trestles; the size of the land required for such trestles in a project is determined solely based on the feasibility study report. In addition, the construction project has, in accordance with regulations, fully included relevant costs such as supplementary farmland acquisition, land expropriation compensation, and land reclamation within the project’s budget estimate. The payment standard for using permanent basic farmland is set at twice the highest local standard for farmland reclamation. The Zhunan 22 ZNm3 per year coal-to-natural gas project is the first phase of a project with an annual production capacity of 4 billion cubic meters of coal-to-natural gas; it was jointly invested in by entities such as Anhui Waneng Group and China Coal Xinji Group for around 30 billion yuan. The second phase of this project, with an annual production capacity of 22 billion cubic meters of coal-to-natural gas and an investment of around 15.3 billion yuan, is currently in the process of undergoing preliminary preparations. In addition, the Zhong’an Coal Chemical Integration Project in Anhui (Huainan) Modern Coal Chemical Industry Park, with a total investment of around 26.7 billion yuan, has been completed and put into operation. This project involves the production of 1.7 million tons per year of methanol, as well as 350,000 tons per year of polyethylene and 350,000 tons per year of polypropylene; it also includes a coal mine with an annual production capacity of 4 million tons in Zhujixi. The second phase of the Zhong’an United Project, which requires an investment of around 10 billion yuan and is designed to produce 900,000 tons per year of coal-based ethylene glycol, has already seen the completion of its preliminary feasibility study.