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On January 12, a technical review meeting on the soil and water conservation plan for the olefins, aromatics, and advanced processing components of Shaanxi Coal Group Yulin Chemical Company’s 15 million tons per year demonstration project for clean and efficient conversion of coal into various products was held in Xi’an. Du Sanmin, a member of the Party Committee and deputy general manager of the company, along with staff from the Planning and Investment Department, the HSSE Management Department, and the Project Management Department, attended the meeting. At the meeting, the report preparation unit provided a detailed explanation of the soil and water conservation plan report for this project. The experts present identified the problems in the report and offered objective and pertinent opinions and suggestions. After discussion and scoring, all experts agreed that the report was generally well-structured, its arguments were sound, and the data was objective and accurate; everyone approved of the principle approval of the soil and water conservation plan report for this project. Finally, Du Sanmin spoke on behalf of the company, stating that Yulin Chemical Company attached great importance to this evaluation meeting. The purpose of the meeting was to listen to the experts’ opinions, actively coordinate issues, and proactively address difficulties. After the meeting, the company will urge the report preparation unit to revise and improve the relevant plan report in accordance with the experts’ suggestions as soon as possible, and submit it for review promptly. Yulin Chemical is carrying out the construction of a demonstration project for the production of new chemical materials through the differentiated utilization of coal in the Qingshui Industrial Park of the Yushen Industrial Zone. As the largest coal chemical project under construction globally at present, this project covers an area of approximately 13 square kilometers. The total planned investment is 126.2 billion yuan, and it will be able to process over 24 million tons of coal per year. The project is constructed in two phases and four stages, comprising a total of 27 process units along with associated utility systems. These mainly include the medium- and low-temperature pyrolysis of 15 million tons of coal, the production of 5.6 million tons of methanol, 1.8 million tons of ethylene glycol, 2 million tons of MTO, as well as downstream products derived from these intermediates. The first phase of the project requires an investment of around 70 billion yuan; it will involve the construction of facilities for producing 1.8 million tons per year of ethylene glycol, 5.6 million tons per year of methanol, and 2 million tons per year of olefins, while also generating a large amount of fine chemical products derived from these olefins. The 1.8 million tons per year ethylene glycol production facility is part of the first phase of the project; it is also the largest coal-based ethylene glycol production plant under construction worldwide. The estimated investment for this facility is 26.5 billion yuan. The project utilizes Collin’s patented dry powder gasification technology and Japan’s patented technology for producing ethylene glycol from syngas. Shaanxi Coal Group Yulin Chemical Co., Ltd. and Nippon Kako Kagaku Co., Ltd. jointly invested in establishing Shaanxi Coal Group Yulin Chemical Yugao Chemical Co., Ltd. to build and operate facilities for the production of oxalate esters as well as for the hydrogenation of oxalate esters to produce ethylene glycol. One of the overall goals set for the project construction is to achieve mechanical completion by June 30, 2021, for the first phase of Project Phase 1, which involves an ethylene glycol production facility with a capacity of 1.8 million tons per year, as well as the first phase of Project Phase 2, which includes a coal pyrolysis facility with a capacity of 1.2 million tons per year and an industrial demonstration unit for the deep processing of coal tar with a capacity of 500,000 tons per year.