With a total investment of 6.1 billion yuan, Zhongtian Hechuang's new project will be held, including acetic acid and vinyl acetate plants.

5-6 March 2026 the overall opening meeting of the green carbon reduction upgrade project of Zhongtian Hechuang Energy Co., Ltd. was officially held in the Central Control Science and Technology Park. Total Project Investment 6122.67 million yuan (about 6.12 billion yuan) the construction site is located in Tuke Industrial Zone, Wushen Banner, Ordos City, Inner Mongolia. As the first deep coupling demonstration project of green hydrogen and coal chemical industry in China at the same time, it is also the core project of hydrogen energy pilot in the national energy field, and its demonstration significance far exceeds the project itself, marking that the green transformation of China's coal chemical industry has officially entered the engineering practice stage.

1. Core Breakthrough: Solving the Green Hydrogen Volatility Problem and Building a Full Chain Closed-Loop Model

the industry background determines the historical value of this project. China's hydrogen energy output exceeds 2025 37 million tons the scale ranks first in the world, and the green hydrogen production capacity exceeds. 250000 tons/year, planning wind and wind hydrogen production project up 860 one the scale of hydrogen production is about 10 million tons/year. However, the large-scale application of green hydrogen has been facing fundamental contradictions for a long time: scenery hydrogen production is naturally volatile, while the coal chemical production process requires extremely high stability. How to safely and efficiently integrate "unstable" green hydrogen into the "habitual stable" coal chemical system is a common problem across the whole industry.

The core value of this project is to solve this problem. The project is deeply linked to its Wushen Banner Scenery Hydrogen Production Project, building a full-chain closed-loop mode of "Green Electricity Hydrogen Production-Green Hydrogen Coupling Coal Chemical Industry-High-end Chemical Product Output" * *, and implementing green hydrogen coupling adaptation and intelligent transformation of the existing main coal chemical production equipment. Expected annual implantation after completion 29000 tons of green hydrogen alternative to gray hydrogen, achieving CO₂ annual emissions reduction of more than 1.2 million tons the scale of carbon emission reduction is extremely prominent in the domestic coal chemical industry. Ordos has the dual endowment of the most important coal chemical industry gathering area and rich scenery resources in China, which provides a natural foundation for the on-site coupling of green and hydrogen coal chemical industry production.

2. new device system and market impact: from coal chemical basic products to high-end chemicals leap.

Project new core unit covers: LNG plant (500000 m & sup3;/d), CO cryogenic separation unit, acetic acid unit (300000 tons/year), vinyl acetate unit (200000 tons/year), EVA unit (kettle type polyethylene transformation, 110000 tons/year), VAE unit (4 × 30000 tons/year, totaling 120000 tons/year).

The product chain extends longitudinally along "Acetic Acid & rarr; Vinyl Acetate & rarr;EVA/VAE" with clear logic. The two terminal products deserve the attention of overseas practitioners:

EVA (110000 tons/year) it is the core raw material of photovoltaic film, and the domestic demand is growing at a high speed. More importantly, EVA products with green hydrogen carbon reduction labels will have additional premium space in the international market where carbon footprint control is becoming more and more stringent. For export-oriented buyers, EVA products have both cost competitiveness and carbon compliance advantages, and are currently scarce low-carbon chemicals in the global photovoltaic supply chain.

VAE (120000 tons/year) widely used in architectural coatings, adhesives and other fields, with EVA sharing vinyl acetate raw materials, industrial chain synergy efficiency is high, the new capacity will be the northwest and the national VAE market supply pattern to form a direct supplement.

Core advice for overseas traders and supply chain practitioners: as the country's first green hydrogen coupled coal chemical demonstration project, the engineering path and economic data of the Zhongtian co-creation project will provide a replicable model for the green transformation of the entire industry, and its demonstration effect, once released, will accelerate the green transformation process of domestic coal chemical production capacity. It is recommended to closely track the progress of project construction and the commissioning nodes of EVA and VAE devices, to study and judge the changes in the supply pattern of related products in the northwest region in advance, and to pay particular attention to the trade structural opportunities of low-carbon EVA products in the context of the International Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM).