China City Gas Production and Supply Industry Production & Marketing Demand and Investment Forecast Report, 2013-2017

As an important part of city resource structure and urban infrastructure, the city gas provides good-quality fuel gas for urban industry, commerce and livelihood. The development of city gas plays an extremely prominent role in the city modernization. It is of great significance for improving the quality of life, urban environment and utilization ratio of resource by improving the city gas coverage. With the increasing length of upstream transmission and distribution pipeline and demand of downstream gas consumption, the scale of China city gas industry is enlarging.

Data from State Statistics Bureau shows that there are 820 corporations of scale for China city gas production and supply industry; the total sales revenue is 222.482 billion Yuan; total gross profit is 20.1 billion Yuan; total products’ selling profit is 26.071 billion Yuan and the number of employee is 186,498.

Besides, there is obvious regional difference for the development of China city gas production and supply industry. The industry corporations mainly concentrate in the eastern China and southwest China of which the proportion to total number is over 50%. Among the two regions, the eastern China ranks the first with 255 corporations while the southwest China ranks the second with 171 corporations. All together, there are only 107 corporations in the northeastern China and northwest China with a proportion of 13.05%.

Current these years, the development and utilization of natural gas and city gas public service are gradually opening up. The entry of HK-funded corporations, private corporations and international transnational corporations, together with the concentration of gas companies--which is former state-owned companies and with great strength after reforming--fierce the market competition. In 2011, the sales revenue proportion of three-capital enterprises to the whole industry is 35.08%; while it is 46.45% for private corporations and 18.47% for state-owned corporations.

The current industry production and supply ways include both the earliest artificial gas as well as the advanced ways in the world such as LPG and natural gas (including CNG and LNG). China city gas still features the coexistence of artificial gas, LPG and natural gas. Among which the LPG takes 63.4% while the artificial gas takes 16.4% and the natural gas takes 20.2%.

With the fast growth of China urban population, the gas consumption will continuously enlarge. Meanwhile, the growth of China household amount will lead to the increase of city gas connection demand and per-capita gas consumption. Moreover, the utilization ratio of city pipeline gas in China is only 30% while it is about 80% in developed countries or first-tier coastal cities in southeast China. It reflects that there is an enormous room for China to improve the ratio. To sum up, development prospects of China city gas production and supply industry is booming.

As the competition of city gas production and supply industry is fiercer, the domestic outstanding city gas production and supply corporations pay more and more attention to the industry market research, especially the in-depth research of product consumers. Because of this, a large number of excellent domestic city gas production and supply corporations rise up rapidly and gradually take a leading position in city gas production and supply industry!

With Forward’s the long-term tracking and collecting market data of city gas production and supply industry, we roundly and accurately analyze the structure system for you from the view of mastering the whole industry. This report will base on the macro condition of current city gas production and supply industry, production and marketing condition, industry demand trend of auto industry, then detailed analyzes the current market capability, market scale, development speed and competitive landscape of China city gas production and supply industry.

This report mainly analyzes the following aspects: supply and demand of China city gas production and supply industry; current market operating environment and corporations’ competitiveness of city gas production and supply industry; market demand features of city gas production and supply industry; import and export market of city gas production and supply industry; competitive landscape and trend of city gas production and supply industry; market development status of city gas production and supply sub-industries; operation condition of major listing corporations in city gas production and supply industry; leading corporations’ operational condition of city gas production and supply industry; development trend and prospects forecast of city gas production and supply industry. Meanwhile, together with the comprehensive and detailed market data which is accumulated for 5 years, Forward helps you to grasp the market and development trends of city gas production and supply industry, so as to win advantages from competition!

Major characteristics of this report are forward-looking and timeliness. Base on the forward-looking analysis of massive research data, we further analyze the development scale and competitive landscape of city gas production and supply industry. Along with the industry development route and our practical experience, we analyze and predict the future development prospect of city gas production and supply industry. This report contains a high value for enterprises like city gas production and supply corporations, R&D institutions, sales corporations and investment corporations to accurately know the latest industry development trend, obtain market opportunities and determine an insightful operation strategy and development direction.

Here, we’d like to express our sincere gratitude to China City Gas Association, Guangdong City Gas Association, National Statistics Bureau of China, International Information Institute, General Administration of Customs, National Institute of the Ministry of Commerce, National Tsing Hua University Library, Institute of Market Economy of the State Council Development Research Center, and Beijing Qinghua Forward Market Research Center, etc. Thank you so much!

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Qianzhan Business Information Co., Ltd. Industry Research Center
Research Team of City Gas Production And Supply Industry