Recently, the Executive Director of International Energy Agency van der Hoeven officials. Witnessed, "natural gas pricing and regulation: the challenges facing China learn from the OECD experience," the report released in Beijing. The report revealed that China has the world's fourth largest natural gas consuming countries, consumption of 130 billion cubic meters in 2011. China's natural gas consumption in 2011 than in 2000 and four times, and the demand for natural gas in China could double in five years from 2011-2015.

It is reported that China's consumption of natural gas than any other OECD countries (excluding the U.S.), and its consumption of natural gas is considered to be one of the fastest growing in the world. In 2002, China has plans to double the increase in the share of natural gas in primary energy structure within a decade. Plan of 2011 and 2002, but to achieve within five years. According to the China National Petroleum Corporation predicted that, by 2020, to reach 350 billion cubic meters of annual consumption.

The report, China has become a major natural gas importing country, pipeline and LNG imports accounted for a quarter of the demand and production of domestic natural gas producing areas of the region away from the centers of demand is also increasing. The report predicts that this trend will speed up, China has become one of the world's largest natural gas importing countries. (Ling Ching)