Songyuan City in Jilin Province, a significant national base for commercial grain production and a traditional industrial hub, possesses abundant wind and solar resources alongside a solid industrial foundation. During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, the city has focused on achieving the "dual carbon" goals, promoting the coordinated development of traditional and new energy sources. By the end of 2025, the city's cumulative grid-connected installed capacity for new energy reached 6.6 million kilowatts. Currently, Songyuan is accelerating its new energy industry layout, driving the simultaneous transformation of its energy structure and industrial upgrading, making green development a defining feature of its high-quality growth.
Presently, CGN Green Hydrogen Ammonia New Energy (Songyuan) Co., Ltd. is preparing for the launch of the second phase of its Songyuan project. The China Energy Construction Songyuan Hydrogen Energy Industrial Park (Integrated Green Hydrogen, Ammonia, and Methanol) project, with a total investment of 29.6 billion yuan, is currently the world's largest integrated green hydrogen, ammonia, and methanol project. As one of the National Development and Reform Commission's first batch of green and low-carbon advanced technology demonstration projects and a National Energy Administration pilot project for green liquid fuel technology research and industrialization, the project plans to construct 3 million kilowatts of new energy power generation facilities in phases, along with facilities capable of producing 800,000 tons of green synthetic ammonia and green methanol annually. It serves as a core engine for Jilin Province's strategy to build a "China Northern Hydrogen Valley."
Upon its official commencement of operations in December 2025, the project obtained the ISCC EU green certification from an international authoritative body and signed the world's first long-distance green ammonia marine fuel sales contract. This established a new global model for certifying integrated green hydrogen, ammonia, and methanol projects, providing strong momentum for China's hydrogen energy industry's transition from demonstration and exploration to large-scale commercial application. The company is currently engaged in in-depth discussions with several major petrochemical and energy firms, as well as renowned multinational traders, to plan new strategic cooperation intentions.
To date, the first phase of the project has achieved stable full-process operation, cumulatively producing 24.47 million standard cubic meters of green hydrogen and 10,798 tons of green ammonia. The project innovatively adopted a "load-following-source" model, successfully withstanding the extreme cold of its first winter. The flexible control of the production line exceeded expectations, effectively converting wind and solar resources into stable zero-carbon fuel.
Songyuan is a city that prospered due to oil. Located in Songyuan, Jilin Oilfield, adhering to PetroChina's overall three-step deployment of "clean replacement, strategic succession, and green transition" during the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, has seen its installed capacity for wind and solar power generation exceed 1 million kilowatts. Its new energy business has grown from nothing, effectively helping to reduce costs and increase efficiency in oil and gas production. It has formed a green industry layout centered on "three major projects": wind and solar power generation, CCUS, and clean energy utilization, charting a distinctive path for the green transformation of an old oilfield.
In the process of building a green oil and gas field demonstration, Jilin Oilfield, based on its actual production conditions and surrounding resources, successfully constructed a 150,000-kilowatt wind and solar power generation project. Through internal green electricity replacement, it has promoted the deep integration of oil and gas with new energy, contributing to the creation of low-carbon and zero-carbon oil and gas fields.
It is reported that during the "15th Five-Year Plan" period, Jilin Oilfield will focus on five key areas: wind, solar, thermal, storage, and hydrogen. It will prioritize advancing the "three major projects": ten-million-kilowatt-level wind and solar power generation, five-million-ton-level carbon storage, and million-ton-standard-coal-level clean energy utilization. By the end of the "15th Five-Year Plan" period, Jilin Oilfield's new energy installed capacity is expected to exceed 4 million kilowatts, with new energy power generation fully replacing the electricity used in oilfield production, aiming to build a domestically leading green and low-carbon oilfield. The oilfield strives to achieve a cumulative installed capacity of 3 million kilowatts for external wind and solar power supply and 1 million kilowatts for natural gas power generation by 2030, realizing an annual power generation of 7.6 billion kilowatt-hours.
By the end of 2025, Songyuan City's cumulative grid-connected installed capacity for new energy reached 6.6 million kilowatts. Fixed asset investment and output value in the new energy sector were 21 times and 8.8 times higher, respectively, than in 2020. It is reported that during the "15th Five-Year Plan" period, Songyuan will leverage its own resource endowment and capitalize on opportunities such as the national-level Changchun-Songyuan-Baicheng hydrogen energy regional pilot and the construction of national-level zero-carbon parks. The city will deepen the leapfrog development of the entire industrial chain encompassing "green electricity + green hydrogen + green chemicals/green metallurgy + equipment manufacturing," focusing on building a modern energy network that integrates "oil, gas, carbon, electricity, and hydrogen" and preliminarily establishing a new energy system.
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