ALONG the coast of China, six vast liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminals are under construction; by the end of 2015 they should have more than doubled the amount of LNG that the country can import.

在中国的沿海地区，有六个大型的液化天然气(LNG)接收站正在作业。到2015年底，中国拥有的天然气量，将是国家能进口的天然气总量的2倍还要多。

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The country aims to raise the contribution of natural gas to the fuel mix to 10% by 2020 from less than 5% today.

中国的目标是到2020年让天然气在该国使用的各种能源中的占比从目前不到5%上升至10%。

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Describing the amount of natural gas consumed by an entire country or a single residential appliance can be confusing, since natural gas can be measured in several different ways.

描述了整个国家或单一住宅设备消耗的天然气量可能会造成混乱，因为天然气可以在几种不同的方法测定。

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Considering the huge natural-gas resource base in North America, the EIA has projected the U.S. to become net exporter of natural gas by 2022, helped by unlocking of the shale natural gas reserves in the country.

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And the economic boom being powered, in some regions of the country, by cheap natural gas (which I cover in the current issue of Fortune) makes investment in clean-energy technology an even more courageous effort.

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India's crude oil output in February declined 4% and natural gas by 20%, underscoring the need for the country to look for ways for raising local output.

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