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On January 7, the website of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment published a notice regarding the status of acceptance of the environmental impact assessment documents for Sinopec Great Wall Energy Chemical (Inner Mongolia) Co., Ltd.’s coal-to-olefins upgrading demonstration project. According to the environmental impact assessment documents, the project is located in the Dalu Industrial Park of the Jungar Economic Development Zone in Ordos, Inner Mongolia. The total investment in the project amounts to 22.067 billion yuan, with approximately 1.6 billion yuan allocated to environmental protection measures, accounting for 7.27% of the total project investment. The project uses coal as a raw material to produce the intermediate product methanol, which is then used to produce olefins, which are ultimately processed into polypropylene, polyethylene, and EVA. The project plans to build a coal-to-methanol plant with an annual capacity of 2.26 million tons (including units for gasification, purification, methanol synthesis, and sulfur recovery), an MTO plant with an annual capacity of 2.26 million tons (including OCC), as well as polyolefin plants: a polypropylene plant with an annual capacity of 250,000 tons (ring-type process), a polypropylene plant with an annual capacity of 200,000 tons (gas-phase process), a polyethylene plant with an annual capacity of 350,000 tons, and an EVA/LDPE plant with an annual capacity of 100,000 tons. This also includes the air separation units and IGCC power plants that support the process equipment, as well as other associated utility systems and auxiliary production facilities.