Ningdong reinventing future of coal

The industrial base has become a cornerstone of China's energy system ever since President Xi Jinping visited twice, most notably in 2016 when Xi called large-scale modern coal chemicals a strategic exploration for national energy security and declared that "socialism is built through hard work".

That message has become the base's defining slogan.

Over the past decade, Ningdong's annual industrial output has more than doubled to over 200 billion yuan ($29.5 billion), making it one of China's five largest chemical industrial parks and the first in western China to surpass the 200-billion-yuan threshold. Its industrial value-added has grown 2.3-fold since 2016 and now contributes more than half of Ningxia's industrial growth.