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BEIJING, March 11, 2021 /PRNewswire=KYODO JBN/ --

- 1,000 Hydrogen Refueling Stations be Built in Next Five Years

Mr. Ma Yongsheng, President of China Petroleum & Chemical Corporation (HKG:

0386, "Sinopec") and Academician of Chinese Academy of Engineering, has

proposed to accelerate hydrogen energy industry development during the Two

Sessions recently held in Beijing. Mr. Ma suggested to devote more efforts in

top-level design, core technology R&D, standard system formulation and

industrial policy support.

As a secondary source of energy, hydrogen is playing an increasingly important

role on the world energy stage. At present, China has achieved significant

progress in hydrogen energy-related technologies, but the hydrogen energy

industry remains in the pilot demonstration and market promotion stage.

Mr. Ma noted the many advantages of hydrogen energy, such as its varied

sources, zero terminal discharge and wide range of applications. According to

the international Hydrogen Council, hydrogen energy will reduce carbon dioxide

emissions by six billion tons by 2050. Meanwhile, the China Hydrogen Energy

Alliance predicts that by 2050, China's annual hydrogen demand will be close to

60 million tons, which would help the country to cut 700 million tons from its

carbon dioxide emissions.

Since 2020, China has successively issued the "Notice of Launching

Demonstration Applications of Fuel Cell Vehicles" and the "New Energy Vehicle

Industry Development Plan (2021-2035)", and supporting plans and policies to

promote hydrogen energy R&D, production, storage and transportation and

application have been introduced by local authorities across China. As of the

end of 2020, China has an inventory of 7,352 fuel cell vehicles, 128 hydrogen

refueling stations have been built with 101 already put into operation, ranking

second worldwide only to Japan.

Sinopec currently produces 3.5 million tons of hydrogen per year. In 2020,

Sinopec started to advance and accelerate the construction of an integrated

hydrogen energy industry chain across various fields – capital operation,

technology R&D, production storage and transportation, network distribution and

social cooperation.

Sinopec has built hydrogen refueling stations in Guangdong, Shanghai, Zhejiang,

Guangxi and more, and 10 oil-hydrogen mixing stations are now in operation.

As part of China's 14th Five-Year Plan, Sinopec has included "clean" in the

company vision for the first time. Carrying the goal of building China's

largest hydrogen energy company, Sinopec will also be promoting clean energy

construction through accelerating the transformation of hydrogen sources from

grey hydrogen to blue and green hydrogen.

"During the '14th Five-Year Plan' period, Sinopec will layout 1,000 hydrogen

refueling stations and step up to become a service provider of 'oil, gas,

hydrogen, electricity and non-oil business' through transformation," said Mr.

Ma. "In the future, people will not only pump gasoline and diesel in Sinopec's

gas stations, but also hydrogen refueling and electricity among other

businesses."

To better promote the market application of the hydrogen energy industry,

Sinopec as an official partner of the 2022 Winter Olympics will guarantee

supply of clean energy for the Game's infrastructure construction and

operations to empower a "Green Winter Olympics."

Therefore, Sinopec's Beijing Yanshan Petrochemical Company has built a hydrogen

purification unit which successfully produced hydrogen with purity of over 99.9

percent in March, 2020, achieving a daily production capacity of 500 kilograms

of battery hydrogen products to meet the market's demand.

About Sinopec

Sinopec Corp. is one of the largest integrated energy and chemical companies in

China. Its principal operations include the exploration and production,

pipeline transportation and sale of petroleum and natural gas; the sale,

storage and transportation of petroleum products, petrochemical products, coal

chemical products, synthetic fiber, fertilizer and other chemical products; the

import and export, including an import and export agency business, of

petroleum, natural gas, petroleum products, petrochemical and chemical

products, and other commodities and technologies; and research, development and

application of technologies and information.

Sinopec sets 'fueling beautiful life' as its corporate mission, puts 'people,

responsibility, integrity, precision, innovation and win-win' as its corporate

core values, pursues strategies of value-orientation, innovation-driven

development, integrated resource allocation, open cooperation, and green and

low-carbon growth, and strives to achieve its corporate vision of building a

world leading energy and chemical company.

Source: SINOPEC

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   Caption: Ma Yongsheng, President of Sinopec Proposed to Accelerate Hydrogen Energy

Industry Development during the Two Sessions 2021, with “clean” in the company

vision for the first time.