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The medium-scale petrochemical project for annual production of 1.5 million tons of high-performance polypropylene has been completed! On the morning of December 30, 2024, the commissioning ceremony was held for Zhongjing Petrochemical’s project with an annual production capacity of 1.5 million tons of high-performance polypropylene, located in the Jiangyin Port City Economic Zone in Fuzhou. This ceremony marked the completion of the installation and acceptance processes for the project, allowing it to enter the pre-operational testing phase, thus laying a solid foundation for its official commissioning next year. The medium-scale petrochemical project for producing 1.5 million tons of high-performance polypropylene per year covers an area of 60 mu, with a total investment of 3.8 billion yuan. It generates an annual output value of 15 billion yuan and drives the output values of related industries in the upstream and downstream chains to reach 30 billion yuan; it is currently the largest single high-performance polypropylene production facility in the world. The project commenced installation in June 2023 and was completed upon acceptance by CCCC, taking over 18 months; numerous technical challenges were overcome during the stages of engineering design, construction, and installation. This project utilizes entirely domestic proprietary technology, namely the \"combined process of vertical reactor slurry polymerization and horizontal reactor gas-phase polymerization.\" It features three production lines for manufacturing homopolymer or random copolymer polypropylene powder, and boasts significant advantages such as high efficiency, low energy consumption, and environmental friendliness. Once operational, this project will supply high-quality raw materials to various industries such as modified plastics, medical products, engineering plastics, melt-blown fabrics, auto parts, non-woven fabrics, packaging materials, and building materials, thereby filling the gap in the production of high-performance polypropylene in South China. Zhongjing Petrochemical: Fujian Zhongjing Petrochemical Co., Ltd. was established in July 2010, with its registered address located in the industrial zone of Jiangyin Town, Fuqing City, Fuzhou Province. It is the only large-scale private petrochemical enterprise in Fujian Province that converts energy as raw material into chemical products. It was established in 2010 in the Jiangyin Port Industrial Zone in Fuzhou by China Soft Packaging Group, with the aim of accelerating the transformation and upgrading of the upstream industries related to soft packaging, creating an efficient and integrated soft packaging industry chain, enhancing the market competitiveness of its products, and strengthening the overall strength of the company. The project involves petrochemical operations for producing BOPP raw material – polypropylene (PP), as well as natural gas cracking processes to produce polypropylene from propylene. It is reported that Zhongjing Petrochemical is the only company in the world today that operates a complete BOPP production chain ranging from \"port storage to propane, then to propylene, polypropylene, and finally polypropylene films\". It also connects five different industries – ports, energy, chemicals, plastics, and flexible packaging – together, creating an efficient integrated system that grants it strong market competitiveness and broad prospects for development. The Zhongjing Petrochemical Park will be developed in phases. Once fully operational, it will become the world’s largest facility for producing propylene via propane dehydrogenation, with an annual output of 3.8 million tons, as well as the world’s largest single-site producer of polypropylene, with an annual output of 4 million tons.