Data from the General Administration of Customs showed that December gas imports, including pipeline imports and tanker shipments of LNG, came in at almost 7.9 million t – 20% higher than November’s record of 6.6 million t.
Imports for the whole of 2017 jumped 27% from 2016 to a record of just under 68.6 million t.
The record spikes continue to be fed by a massive government push to heat millions of homes and power thousands of factories with natural gas, instead of coal and other fossil fuels, in northern China.
