生态优先绿色发展 锡林郭勒构建绿电氢能煤化工融合发展新格局Ecological priority and green development: Xilin Gol builds a new pattern of integrated development of green electricity, hydrogen energy, and coal chemical industry

Xilin Gol League leverages its unique and superior natural scenery resources, coordinating high-quality development with high-level protection, and unswervingly pursuing a path of ecological priority and green development. By promoting the development of renewable energy, ecological management of sandy lands, and the deep integration of low-carbon transformation in traditional industries, it continuously transforms its green resource advantages into industrial and developmental advantages, empowering the entire league's economic and social green, low-carbon, and high-quality development.

The southern edge of the Hunshandake Sandy Land is the core area for comprehensive watershed management and sandy land edge-locking management in Xilin Gol League. The Datang Duolun 150,000-kilowatt wind-photovoltaic hydrogen production integrated demonstration project is located here, strictly following the development philosophy of 'protect first, develop later; development means governance,' simultaneously advancing the construction of the photovoltaic base with sandy land ecological restoration, soil and water conservation management, and normalized vegetation maintenance.

The project innovatively explores a composite ecological management model of 'power generation on panels, planting grass under panels, and sand control and soil stabilization.' Relying on the natural advantages of photovoltaic panels in providing shade to retain moisture and preventing wind and sand, it continuously carries out under-panel native vegetation restoration and ecological grass seed sowing, restores sandy land ecosystems, curbs the spread of desertification, and firmly strengthens the ecological security barrier in northern China. At the same time, the base locally consumes and converts clean photovoltaic green electricity, successfully establishing a low-carbon industrial chain of 'green electricity—green hydrogen—green coal chemical industry,' achieving mutual empowerment and synergistic enhancement of ecological protection, energy development, and industrial transformation.

Tang Le, Deputy General Manager of Datang Inner Mongolia Duolun Coal Chemical Co., Ltd., introduced that the project is rooted in the southern edge of the Hunshandak sandy land, always upholding ecological bottom lines and insisting on simultaneous development and management. Relying on the advantages of photovoltaic panels in sand control and moisture retention, it continuously carries out under-panel vegetation restoration, steadily consolidating the effectiveness of sandy land edge stabilization. At the same time, it produces green hydrogen from self-generated green electricity to supply the coal chemical industry for carbon reduction, transforming ecological protection achievements into industrial development momentum, achieving a win-win of ecological, social, and economic benefits, and concretely strengthening the ecological security barrier of the northern frontier of the country.

Relying on the stable operation of the integrated wind-solar-hydrogen storage project, the Duolun coal chemical industry has achieved a green and low-carbon upgrade. The project leverages supporting wind and solar power bases to produce green hydrogen using clean renewable energy electricity, replacing traditionally coal-based gray hydrogen in the production of methanol, polypropylene, and other products, significantly reducing the industry's carbon emission intensity from the source.

By September 2026, the project had cumulatively produced 48.15 million standard cubic meters of green hydrogen, achieving a reduction of 95,000 tons of carbon dioxide; the supporting wind farm had cumulatively supplied 550 million kilowatt-hours of green electricity directly, effectively reducing regional fossil energy consumption. With solid technological innovation and a mature integrated development model, multiple achievements of the project have been awarded national industry-level honors, providing a replicable and promotable demonstration model for the green and low-carbon transformation of the traditional coal chemical industry in the entire region.

Based on ecological priority and green development orientation, Xilin Gol League continues to leverage its rich wind and solar resources, vigorously cultivating the emerging 'green electricity' industry, and promoting deep integration and coordinated upgrading of the renewable energy industry with traditional advantageous industries. Next, Xilin Gol League will continue to advance large-scale and intensive development of wind and photovoltaic power, accelerate the construction of ultra-high-voltage transmission channels, steadily and orderly promote the transformation and upgrading of traditional energy industries, always adhere to the principle of establishing first before dismantling, safeguard the bottom line of energy security, continuously deepen the path of green electricity empowering the development of high-quality production capacity, and continuously cultivate and expand new green and low-carbon productivity, making the green ecology the most distinctive and substantial foundation for high-quality development across the league.

[Source: Xilin Gol League Forestry and Grassland Bureau]