Recently, the executive director of the international energy agency FanDeHu Finn and officials under the witness, the natural gas pricing and supervision: China is faced with the challenge and the oecd experience learning "report released in Beijing. The report revealed that China is already the world's fourth largest natural gas consumer, its 2011 years of consumption is 130 billion cubic meters. In 2011 China's natural gas consumption has more than 2000 years increased four times, and China's natural gas demand in the 2011-2015 years this five years may be doubled.
It is reported, China's natural gas consumption than any oecd countries (the United States except), its natural gas consumption is considered to be the world's fastest growing on one of the countries. In 2002, China has plans in ten years in a natural gas energy structure of share doubled. 2011 years of planning and the quantity of the same in 2002, but in the five years to achieve. According to the China national petroleum corporation predicts that by 2020, is likely to reach 350 billion cubic meters of consumption of the year.
The report says that China has become the important natural gas importers, the pipeline and gas imports accounted for a quarter of its demand, and the demand from the central regions of the domestic production of the natural gas production regions are also on the increase. The report forecasts the trend will pick up speed, make China become the world's largest natural gas importers.