The prefecture-level region in China’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region also wants to produce two million tonnes of green ammonia and three million tonnes of green methanol at Xing’an’s Economic and Technological Development Zone.

Six billion yuan ($840m) has already been invested in infrastructure, according to Gao Tianyu, director of the Administrative Committee of the zone, to help implement and develop the production projects.

The zone claims to have attracted interest from major renewable energy companies, including Goldwind, CGN, and Mingyang.

However, no timelines, developers, technologies, or financing structures have been disclosed, and many such regional targets in China remain conceptual until state-backed offtakers or developers confirm project phases.

But if the cluster is fully delivered, H2 View understands that 700,000 tonnes of green hydrogen per year would make it one of the world’s largest.

For comparison, the 2.2GW Neom Green hydrogen plant is expected to produce up to 600 tonnes per day, or 219,000 tonnes per year, for conversion into ammonia.

While the figures are currently part of a regional blueprint rather than firm project commitments, the initiative highlights Inner Mongolia’s growing ambitions to become a major clean fuels production base.

Sinopec recently awarded 240MW of electrolyser tenders to Longi, Sany, and Huadian for its green hydrogen project in Inner Mongolia, while Datang Group has begun operating a production unit at its coal-to-chemicals complex in the region.