Recently, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and the State Administration of Market Supervision and Administration announced the list of energy efficiency "frontrunner" enterprises in key energy-using industries in 2021, and a total of 27 chemical companies were selected, 2 less than the public list.

Energy efficiency "front-runner" selection industries include crude oil processing, ethylene, synthetic ammonia, methanol, caustic soda, soda ash, paraxylene, calcium carbide, coking and other chemical sub-industries, as well as steel, copper smelting, zinc smelting, lead smelting, cement industry.