CHINA: Bio-ethanol gasoline accounts for 20% of overall gasoline consumption

BEIJING – China has gained a yearly output of bio-ethanol gasoline of 10.2 million tons, accounting for 20 percent of its overall gasoline consumption, Thursday’s Shanghai Securities News reported, quoting the State Development and Reform Commission.

China has unfolded a trial use of bio-ethanol gasoline, a mixture of ten percent ethanol and ninety percent gasoline, in five provinces and 27 cities.

Up to now, four provinces including northeastern Heilongjiang, Jilin and Liaoning provinces, and central Henan province have extended bio-ethanol gasoline province-wide.

According to its plan for the coming five years, China will build four major manufacturers of bio-ethanol with yield capacity of about one million tons one year, listed third after Brazil and the United States in the world, the paper said.

Xinhua.net