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Recently, the handover ceremony for the 200,000-ton per year vinyl acetate production project, part of Fujian Energy Chemical Group’s chlor-alkali division relocation project, was held and completed successfully. The project is located in the Gulei Port Economic Development Zone in Zhangzhou, Fujian, and uses acetic acid and ethylene produced by the facilities upstream in the Gulei zone to manufacture vinyl acetate and related by-products. Once the project reaches full capacity, it will further improve and expand the ethylene industry chain at the Gulei Petrochemical Complex, contributing to further economic development in the region. The EPC general contract for the project was signed in November 2022, and construction commenced in the same month. Throughout the project’s development, Tianchen Company’s project team emphasized on-site safety and project quality as fundamental priorities, while focusing on schedule adherence; they united all participating units to overcome various challenges, and ultimately completed the project on time after 17 months. The completion by CCCC marks the transition of the project from the construction phase to the preparation stage for trial production. The 200,000-ton per year vinyl acetate production project, part of the relocation initiative for the chlor-alkali sector of Fujian Energy Chemical Group, is located in the petrochemical expansion area of the Gulei Petrochemical Base. The project was invested in and constructed by Fujian Haiquan Chemical Co., Ltd., with a total investment of 1,502,320,000 yuan. The plant uses ethylene and acetic acid as raw materials to produce vinyl acetate via the ethylene-based vinyl acetate production technology developed by the Petrochemical Technology Development Center of Tianjin University. It is mainly composed of units such as the acetic acid deiodination unit, the vinyl acetate synthesis unit, the distillation unit, and the pharmaceutical solution preparation system. In January 2022, Fujian Haiquan Chemical Co., Ltd. of Fujian Energy and Chemical Group was inaugurated, and a series of projects commenced. The Fujian Energy and Chemical Group plans to invest a total of 10.8 billion yuan in a series of projects that will cover an area of 990 mu. The construction is scheduled to take place in two phases; Haiquan Chemical Company is intended to handle the relocation and development of the enterprises located in the Quangang chlor-alkali area of the group, with 5 sub-projects to be built at the Gulei petrochemical complex. The total investment for one of these phases is 7.2 billion yuan, and the projects to be built include: one vinyl acetate plant with an annual capacity of 200,000 tons, one P0/SM plant produced via a combined process with annual capacities of 200,000/450,000 tons, one PPG plant with an annual capacity of 200,000 tons, one BD0 plant with an annual capacity of 36,000 tons, and one PBT plant with an annual capacity of 60,000 tons ； The total investment for the second-phase project is 3.6 billion yuan, with the intention of building a propane dehydrogenation unit with an annual capacity of 900,000 tons.