China will reduce its reliance on petroleum imports by basing its energy supply on coal and developing new and renewable energies, said a senior official with the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) on Tuesday.
China successfully reduced its net imports of petroleum last year, said Zhang Guobao, vice minister of the NDRC at the 7th [...]

China National Coal Group Corp is buying a major coal-to- petrochemicals plant in Harbin, Northeast China, where it plans to turn out 600,000 tons of olefin products annually using home-grown technology.
The Beijing-based State-owned company, China’s second-biggest coal firm, has reached an initial agreement with the Harbin municipal government on the takeover of Harbin Coal [...]

China has raised the capital threshold for projects converting coal to liquid fuel to brake a possible overheating in the coal-chemical industry, as excessive development of the fossil fuel pollutes the environment and strains the water supply.
On July 7, the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), China’s industrial watchdog, issued a circular requiring local governments [...]

China plans to promote the development of dimethyl ether (DME), a fuel created from coal, which is being touted as a cleaner substitute for diesel, the official Xinhua news agency reported.
Standards for the use of DME as a civil fuel were bing being drawn up, the report quoted a circular from the energy policy-making National [...]