The growth of natural gas industry in urban regions has met overwhelming demands, though China’s natural gas consumption accounted for just 3.2% of the total primary energy consumption in 2008.
The nation heavily relies on the supply of foreign product, as China’s proven natural gas reserves are less than 1% of the world’s total. China has stepped up exploration and increased the production capacity of domestic producers in an attempt to quell the shortage.
In addition, China has not yet established and improved a system for natural gas storage.
Wang encourages enterprises’ measures in fighting for the rights to import the product from the international market, cooperating with upstream enterprises to establish liquefied natural gas destinations, and setting up multi-resources supply systems.
China’s natural gas user number in mid- and large-sized cities amounted to 110 million in 2008, and the export volume in urban areas was more than 30 billion cubic meters.
