The coal gas industry is just rising in China a breakthrough at the exploration test having been made and the regional exploration stage being beginning.

我国煤层气产业刚刚崛起，已经实现了勘探试验的突破，开始进入区域勘探阶段。

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But there had been little incentive for the global chemical industry to gasify coal until prices began soaring for natural gas and oil.

但是直到天然气和石油的价格大幅上涨之后，全球化学工业才有了开展煤炭气化业务的动力。

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Now China has another attraction for the energy-intense chemical industry: vast supplies of coal that can replace oil and natural gas as raw materials for chemical production.

现在中国对高耗能的化学工业来说又平添了一项吸引力：中国巨大的煤炭资源可以用来代替石油和天然气用作化工生产的原材料。

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Now phase that up into enormous industries like the natural gas, coal or oil industry.

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In the long run, it may do the coal industry no good either: gas-fired power stations are becoming ever smaller, so more customers in future will generate their own power.

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The biggest is probably the large amount of coal to gas switching occurring in the power generation industry.

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