Xinjiang becomes new bio-fuel production base

Xinjiang recently launched new bio-fuel projects to increase its output of bio-fuel to 400,000 tons in five years. Xinjiang has become an important base for the production of bio-fuel ethanol.

Bio-fuel is the fuel ethanol extracted from the fruit or stalk of crops. In 2005, China's produced 1.02 million tons of fuel ethanol. The amount of ethanol gasoline produced from this was 10.2 million tons. At present, China has several major bio-fuel ethanol production bases. They are mainly in agricultural provinces such as Jilin, Henan, Anhui and Heilongjiang. Jilin is the largest with an annual output of more than 600,000 tons.

By People's Daily Online