{"id":148945,"date":"2026-04-01T04:00:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T04:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=148945"},"modified":"2026-04-01T04:00:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T04:00:09","slug":"china-doubles-down-on-chemical-plant-expansion-with-tech-breakthrough-amid-iran-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=148945","title":{"rendered":"China doubles down on chemical plant expansion with tech breakthrough amid Iran war"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostChina is doubling down on mega chemical plants to secure the \u201cindustrial gold\u201d needed for its green technology and to scale the coal-based production of chemicals whose global supply is stalled by conflict in the Middle East.<br \/>\nOn March 20, construction began on the world\u2019s largest coal-to-ethylene glycol project in Xinjiang\u2019s Turpan prefecture, which is expected to produce 2.4 million tonnes per year, according to state news agency Xinhua.<br \/>\nChina\u2019s first 100,000-tonne\/year solution process-based&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/science\/article\/3348522\/china-doubles-down-chemical-plant-expansion-tech-breakthrough-amid-iran-war?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostChina is doubling down on mega chemical plants to secure the \u201cindustrial gold\u201d needed for its green technology and to scale the coal-based production&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148945"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=148945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148945\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=148945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=148945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=148945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}