At the 2025 National People’s Congress and Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference* (Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC): March 4th, 2025– March 10th, 2025 National People’s Congress (NPC): March 5th, 2025 – March 11th, 2025)

deputies and members from sectors such as petrochemicals, new energy, and advanced materials put forward a series of proposals focused on green transformation, aligned with national strategies like the “Dual Carbon” goals and high-quality development.

These proposals centered on key areas including low-carbon development, hydrogen energy, green methanol, CO₂ resource utilization, and recyclable, degradable, and renewable materials. They not only address the urgent need for energy structure transformation and low-carbon development but also offer guidance for driving industrial innovation, building a green manufacturing system, and improving policy and standards frameworks.

 Companies mentioned in the following report:

  • China National Chemical Corporation,
  • China National Petroleum Corporation
  • Sinopec
  • Sinopec Anqing Petrochemical Plant
  • Sinopec Zhongyuan Oilfield
  • Sinopec Qingdao Petrochemical Company
  • Geely Holding Group
  • Beijing SinoHytec Co., Ltd.
  • LONGi Green Energy
  • Levima Advanced Materials
  • Wanhua Chemical

Table of content

1. Green, Low Carbon, High-Quality, Healthy Development
2. Hydrogen Energy, Green Methanol, CO2 Utilization
3. Degradable, Recyclable, Renewable
4. Daydream – Dynovel
References

1. Green, Low Carbon, High-Quality, Healthy Development

Mo Dingge
Party Secretary and Chairman of China National Chemical Corporation

Promote green and high-quality development of chemical industry through multi-energy integration and synergy

  1. Increase investment to support R&D and industrial demonstration of green chemical technologies
  2. Improve standards and regulatory systems to ensure healthy and orderly development of the chemical industry
  3. Strengthen approval support to accelerate the development of cross-sector integrated new industry models
  4. Enhance public communication and promote the market application of green chemicals through “labeling” initiatives

Dai Houliang
Party Secretary and Chairman of China National Petroleum Corporation

Green and high-quality development path for energy and chemicals

  1. Decarbonizing fossil energy
    • Clean, efficient fossil energy utilization
    • Scale-up of shale gas and coalbed methane
    • Boost natural gas share for low-carbon transition
  2. Scaling up new energy
    • Build large wind and solar bases in desert regions
    • Integrate oil, gas, and new energy, support direct green power supply
    • Advance new energy storage technologies
  3. Upgrading refining and petrochemicals
    • Green, low-carbon, high-end development
    • Promote SAF (*), biodiesel, biochemicals
    • Expand domestic production of high-end materials
  4. Advancing the Environmental Protection Industry
    • Shift to integrated environmental governance
    • Move toward green, low-carbon, circular development

(*) SAF: Sustainable Aviation Fuel

Ma Yongsheng
Chairman and Party Secretary of Sinopec

Build a green Oil & Gas industry

  1. Green Oil & Gas fields
    • Balance energy security and low-carbon development
    • Full-process energy saving
    • Multi-energy integration for old oilfields and new energy integration for new oilfields
  2. Green refining and chemicals
    • Source-level carbon reduction
    • Low-carbon energy use
    • Carbon reduction throughout production processes
    • Full-chain energy efficiency (raw material → final product)
    • Scale up CCUS (*)
    • Build a full recycling chain for waste plastics
  3. Green technology support
    • Build an enterprise-led, market-driven innovation system
    • Accelerate breakthroughs in key technologies for high-quality energy supply, efficient resource use, and green & low-carbon development

(*) CCUS: Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage

Liu Xiaohua
Party Secretary of Sinopec Anqing Petrochemical Plant

Promote healthy competition in the chemical industry

  1. Strengthen top-level design & regulatory system
    • Develop capacity control & adjustment plans, build dynamic monitoring and warning platforms
    • Raise project approval thresholds, eliminate inefficient capacities
  2. Improve market mechanisms & standardize behavior
    • Create a capacity warning list, combat unfair competition
    • Promote high-end, green, and intelligent industry transformation
  3. Boost policy support for innovation & upgrading
    • Set up special funds for high-end materials, fine chemicals, and green processes
    • Strengthen the “Three Firsts and One Subsidy” policy
    • Encourage specialized and innovative enterprises
  4. Guide capacity integration & cultivate industry leaders
    • Use mixed ownership reforms & mergers to integrate small/medium enterprises
    • Promote collaboration across the industry chain and drive efficient resource recycling

2. Hydrogen Energy, Green Methanol, CO2 Utilization

Zhang Qingsheng
Party Secretary and Executive Director of Sinopec Zhongyuan Oilfield

Developing green hydrogen is key to achieving the “Dual Carbon” goals, requiring stronger top-level planning and coordinated industry development

  1. Follow the path of low-carbon and renewable energy for hydrogen production
  2. Support the green hydrogen industry through pricing mechanisms, emission reduction, resource allocation, and grid policies
  3. Strengthen policy support and boost supply-side subsidies for green hydrogen projects
  4. Expand hydrogen applications, integrate with emerging sectors like the low-altitude economy, and accelerate use in metallurgy, petrochemicals, etc.
  5. Speed up breakthroughs in hydrogen pipeline transportation technology and infrastructure deployment

Li Shufu
Chairman of Geely Holding Group

Develop green methanol

  1. Establish national standards for green methanol and methanol refueling stations suited to China’s conditions
  2. Support the large-scale development of industrial CO₂ capture and hydrogen-to-methanol production
  3. Guide the industry’s sustainable and healthy growth; accelerate the realization of green methanol’s ecological value

Zhang Guoqiang
Chairman of Beijing SinoHytec Co., Ltd.

Strengthen top-level design for sustainable hydrogen industry development

  1. Increase financing support for private enterprises
  2. Improve fund disbursement mechanism and promptly release fuel cell vehicle policies to maintain industry confidence
  3. Build a diversified, low-cost hydrogen supply system; steadily increase the share of green hydrogen in the supply mix
  4. Encourage exploration of economical, efficient, and safe hydrogen storage and transportation technologies
  5. Coordinate nationwide planning for hydrogen highway demonstration projects
  6. Advance the deployment of hydrogen refueling
  7. Pilot projects for solar-powered hydrogen production

Zhong Baoshen
Chairman of LONGi Green Energy

Accelerate the promotion and application of green hydrogen and green methanol

  1. Build integrated green energy bases and demonstration projects
  • Promote the integrated development of wind, solar, hydrogen, and methanol energy
  • Establish world-leading demonstration bases for hydrogen metallurgy, green methanol fuels, coal chemical, and petrochemical green hydrogen applications
  • Drive technology progress and cost reduction through demonstration projects
  1. Improve the supporting systems for green hydrogen
  • Establish comprehensive systems for green hydrogen certification, carbon reduction, and carbon trading
  • Promote the application of green hydrogen carbon asset management platforms

Han Feng
Executive Director and Party Secretary of Sinopec Qingdao Petrochemical Company

Accelerate production of high value-added chemicals from CO₂

  1. Strengthen tech support and foster collaboration to solve technical challenges
  2. Promote efficient, systematic development of CO₂ utilization, including:
  • Optimize costs and enhance benefits with multiple measures
  • Strengthen policy guidance to create a high-quality development environment
  • Formulate medium-long-term plans for industrialization and tech support
  • Build an integrated platform for upstream and downstream collaboration to advance systematic coordination
  • Develop guidelines for carbon utilization, carbon rights, and revenue distribution

Zheng Yueming
Chairman of Levima Advanced Materials

Coupled development of coal chemical industry with green hydrogen and natural gas

  1. Support the coupling of coal chemicals with green hydrogen, advance technology, reduce costs, and enhance supply capacity
  2. Promote coupling with natural gas to improve the coal chemical industry’s green development

 

3. Degradable, Recyclable, Renewable

Zheng Yueming
Chairman of Levima Advanced Materials

Strengthen the enforcement of plastic bans and restrictions, support the development of the degradable plastics industry

  1. Enhance supervision and prohibit non-degradable plastics from entering restricted plastic use areas
  2. Hold local governments accountable by using the plastic ban implementation as a criterion for evaluating civilized, sanitary, and tourist cities.
  3. Improve degradable plastics standards, strengthen quality testing, certification, and labeling management to foster healthy market development
  4. Support the recycling and disposal of degradable products

Liao Zengtai
Chairman of Wanhua Chemical

Accelerating the industrialization of recyclable and renewable materials

  1. Setting minimum usage ratios to promote green transformation
    • It is recommended that the government establish clear minimum usage ratio standards for recyclable and renewable materials in industries with high material demand, such as construction and home appliances
  1. Establishing a national standard system to regulate industry development
    • Establish a national standard system for recyclable and renewable materials, providing unified testing and verification services for products.

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References

(*) Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC): March 4th, 2025– March 10th, 2025National People’s Congress (NPC): March 5th, 2025 – March 11th, 2025

  • Contributing to Carbon Neutrality: What Petrochemical Industry Deputies and Members say about China Chemical Industry News
  • CPPCC Member Ma Yongsheng: Tackle Carbon Reduction, Pollution Control, and Green Growth at the Source
  • Voices from the Two Sessions | NPC Deputy Liu Xiaohua: Promote Orderly and Healthy Competition in the Chemical Industry
  • 2025 Two Sessions Conclude | In-Depth Look at “Green Proposals” from Deputies and Members
  • NPC Deputy Zhang Guoqiang: Strengthen Top-Level Design to Develop a Sustainable Hydrogen Industry, China Automotive News
  • NPC Deputy and Chairman of Levima, Zheng Yueming: Support the Integration of Coal Chemical Industry with Green Hydrogen and Natural Gas
  • Focus on the Two Sessions: Four Key Proposals from NPC Deputy Liao Zengtai, Wanhua Chemical