Vice Premier Han Zheng Urges PipeChina to Flank Ahead
August 18, the Vice Premier of the State Council Han Zheng inspected PipeChina HQ and brought new requests regarding PipeChina’s acquisition progress, piping network reform, natural gas supply and storage security, and winter heating season.
Han Zheng addressed that since the establishment of PipeChina, the piping network reform has been shaping, but PipeChina needs to flank ahead with its original aspiration “secure national energy supply as public service in oil and gas transportation”.
Han Zheng also added several targets to PipeChina: To deal with the contradiction during the asset transfer and initiating operation, to schedule the piping network construction plan and accelerate the progress of major projects, to optimize the piping network running rules, to fully utilize the native functioning as a public service platform by big data and other innovations, to guarantee the open, fair and transparent marketized environment to all participants, to achieve the unified management and operation of the main piping network, to guide the fusion of local piping network to join PipeChina through market behaviors, to perfect the winter supply system and secure the natural gas supply in the winter heating season.
