Nitrogen methanol is an important basic chemical raw materials, to protect agricultural production and plays a very important role in promoting the development of national economy. The rapid growth China nitrogen methanol scale, in 2013 accounted for 36% and 50% of world capacity, occupy the first in the world, become a great world production and consumption country. Industry concentration is significantly improved, industry development base pattern has been formed. In the gradual growth in production at the same time, technological innovation has made significant achievements. A number of independent research and development of large-scale coal gasification technology, coal to methanol, to achieve breakthroughs in key technologies of coal to olefins, ethylene glycol, and equipment. Industry energy-saving emission reduction achieved results. Compared with 2010, 2013, methanol, ammonia synthesis productivity of unit energy consumption decreased by 2.3% and 9.9% respectively.

We must also realize that, compared with the international advanced level, there is a big gap China nitrogen methanol industry, industry development is facing many contradictions and problems. Excess capacity, the overall level is low, the comprehensive competitiveness is not strong, increase resources and environment binding and so on, the urgent need to strengthen the guidance, and optimize the layout, strengthen innovation, improve efficiency, achieve the transformation and upgrading. Facing "an important opportunity to the four modernizations" synchronization Chinese nitrogen methanol industry, also faced with resource and environmental constraints, raw materials and labor to rise, the international market competition and a series of severe test, China nitrogen methanol industry must fully understand the factors of development of the industry have a significant role in the past have changed, the healthy development of the industry must find new motivation and mode, only to speed up transformation and upgrading, to open up a new situation of the development of the industry.