On December 30, 2011, the signing ceremony of the Xinjiang Coal-to-Gas Natural Gas Purchase and Sale Framework Agreement was held at the headquarters. Sinopec signed agreements with nine coal-based natural gas companies including China Huaneng, China Huadian, China Guodian, China Power Investment Group, Henan Coal Chemicals, Xuyuan Group, China Wanxiang, Xinjiang Guanghui, and Lijing Coal to implement Xinjiang coal-based natural gas. External transmission pipeline engineering gas source.

Wang Tianpu, general manager of the group company, and Kuzhensi Kuaixi, vice chairman of Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region Party Committee and vice chairman of the autonomous region, proposed the signing ceremony and delivered a speech. Wang Yongming, vice chairman of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region’s Political Consultative Conference and director of the Economic and Credit Committee, attended the ceremony. Wang Zhigang, senior vice president of the company, signed the agreement with the relevant person in charge of the nine companies.

Xinjiang's coal-to-natural gas pipeline project includes the New Yuezhe Pipeline and the Xinlu Pipeline, with a designed gas transmission capacity of 30 billion cubic meters per year. Among them, the new Guangdong-Zhejiang-Zhejiang Pipeline will build 1 trunk line and 5 branch lines, with an estimated total length of 7373 kilometers, supporting the construction of gas storages and LNG emergency peak-loading stations, and the target markets will be 13 provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities including Xinjiang, Gansu and Ningxia; Xinlu Pipeline will construct a trunk line and two branch lines, with an estimated total length of 4,463 kilometers, supporting the construction of gas storage (shared with the new Guangdong-Zhejiang-Zhejiang pipeline), and the target markets are Henan, Shandong, Hebei, and Beijing.