On October 31, the national development and Reform Commission issued the natural gas utilization policy. According to the policy, urban residents' domestic gas, public service gas and natural gas vehicles in urban gas will be used as priority users of natural gas, and some natural gas chemical industry and natural gas power generation will be prohibited. However, natural gas power generation projects in Chongqing will not be affected.

According to the policy, natural gas users are divided into priority, allowable, restricted and prohibited categories. Among them, some natural gas power generation projects are prohibited, but Chongqing natural gas power generation projects are not prohibited.

The relevant person in charge of the municipal development and Reform Commission said that Chongqing is not within the scope of the 13 large coal bases stipulated in the policy. At the same time, the policy includes natural gas distributed energy projects (comprehensive energy utilization efficiency of more than 70%, including comprehensive utilization with renewable energy) and natural gas cogeneration projects into the priority category of industry. Therefore, the natural gas energy projects in Liangjiang New Area of Chongqing belong to the category of encouragement and guarantee and will not be affected by the policy.