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2. Last year, the haze in the atmosphere encouraged many people to
implement the “coal-to-electricity” conversion plan. According to a
China Securities newspaper report, the present demolition of coal-fired
boilers has reached a substantial level in its implementation.

3. Beginning in the second quarter when the government
enacted its coal-fired boiler demolition act to prevent
excessive pollution, the coal-fired boiler “annihilation”
program has extended into many areas. In the context of
energy-saving environmental protection, “coal to electricity”
will become the big trend for the next few years. As the
alternative to coal-fired boiler, gas boilers are expected to
usher in a tremendous growth.
On May 13, Zhengzhou City Hall stopped the operation of
a coal-fired boiler in the Yutong Bus Company by removing
the 10-ton steam-boiler system. It also decided that by the
end of next year, the city’s 263 coal-fired boilers will be
completely demolished and converted.

4. In Beijing, the “coal to gas” project has entered the
construction phase. Beijing Gas Group General Manager
Li Yalan recently disclosed to the media that by the end
of 2013, Beijing City within four districts will be coal-free
and by 2015 six districts will be added.
Facilitating the conversion from coal gas to natural gas
boiler, the plan is to divide Beijing this year into 3 groups
of 93 coal-fired boiler areas. In the view of many, coal is
seen as the culprit in bringing about hazy weather which
is expected to rise even more sharply. As an example,
Zhengzhou city’s monitoring data show pollutants mainly
came from coal dust (41%), PM (28%) and motor
vehicles (24%). Zhengzhou city’s energy structure is still
dominated by coal. Coal use in 2012 reached 35,000,000
tons, which is 73% of the total fuel use.

5. The City Hall issued ”The blue sky” White Paper
incorporating the proposed objectives of the project
wherein coal-fired boilers will switch to cleaner fuels such
as natural gas as an emergency measure. Exhausts from
gas boilers contain much less pollutants than coal-fired
boilers. According to Li Yalan, converting to natural gas
in operating boilers will reduce NO2 emissions by 60%
and sulfur dioxide emissions drastically by 99.5%.
In addition to cutting down pollutants, heating efficiency
will be substantially improved. Currently, the heating
efficiency of coal-fired boilers is 60% to 85% while that of
gas-fired boilers is over 90%. Beijing’s overall conversion
into the usage of gas boilers will increase heating
efficiency by 30%. Beijing city hall officials will also look
into the improvement of heating subsidies. This will
encourage residents to choose clean energy.

6. China Securities News reports said that from the first
two quarters of 2013, aside from Beijing, Zhengzhou,
Shaanxi and Xi’an, Lanzhou City, Taiwan has also
replaced its coal-fired boilers. Lanzhou city construction,
environmental protection, municipal and other
departments are jointly carrying out trials for its urban
coal-fired boiler renovation project by dismantling 83
Taiwan steam boilers, accounting for a total dismantling
by 40%.
Xinjiang Urumqi will also shift from coal to gas as part of
its people’s livelihood project, part of its reconstruction
project dubbed “priority among priorities in beautiful
Xinjiang”. In Tibet, dozens of heating stations are also
actively carrying out reconstruction of gas boilers as the
deadline for complete conversion nears.

7. Natural gas boilers are expected to experience
an upsurge in sales. Research data on the
growing energy and natural gas industry,
according to analyst Huang Qing of the China
Securities News, will accelerate the phasing-out
of coal-fired boilers into gas boilers.
Governments around the world are seen to
complete in the move to reduce carbon
emissions from the current levels. Together with
the rest of the “oil to gas” and “coal to gas”
conversion, the directive is expected to usher in
a great increase in compliance.

8. Yutong Bus Company told the China Securities
newspaper reporter that in response to city hall’s “blue
sky” project, the company will accelerate its conversion
from coal-fired boiler heating. Four sets of 10-ton coal-
fired boilers will be demolished and replaced with 3
sets of 20-ton natural-gas boilers. They expect to be
finished before the end of 2013. The other 2 sets of 25-
ton coal-fired boilers will be completed in 2014. Yutong
Company equipment safety director Li Zhihui told the
media that the company expects to spend more than
$20,000,000 for the conversion into natural gas boilers
in two years’ time.

9. The replacement of coal-fired boilers brought good news
for the new-energy boiler manufacturing industry. The
China Securities News reporter said that Beijing Taikang
boiler company expects to experience a rise in sales of
boiler products of all types this year. However, previous
product sales declined significantly for coal-fired boilers.
Production of natural gas boilers showed significant
growth trends.
Hangzhou Boiler Co.’s representative told the China
Securities Journal that natural gas boiler production
company can supply the entire boiler output by 50% as
natural gas boiler sales in the country accounts for a
large chunk of the market. With the West-East gas
pipeline project already ongoing, the city’s natural gas
power station can expect to have enough supply of good
quality natural gas for boilers. The company’s natural
gas needs is also expected to increase tremendously.

10. The optimism in the use natural gas boiler will help
increase sales and further strengthen the conversion
program. Hangzhou Boiler Company explained in the
report that with the concerted efforts to prevent the rapid
increase of atmospheric pollution, natural gas power
generation opportunities will help increase the orders for
the company’s waste-heat boilers, particularly gas-
turbine-powered waste-heat boilers.
The giant power-station boiler parts manufacturing
enterprises, Run-Chuan, revealed to the China
Securities newspaper reporter that although the demand
for natural gas boiler parts are relatively low at present,
the company’s diversified distribution system will make
natural gas boiler components an important business
component of the company.

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