On May 8, Ningxia held the second batch of major projects in 2022 to start construction. The main venue for the start of construction was held at the site of the Aoneng Ruila sodium salt new energy storage industry chain project in Suyin Industrial Park, Yinchuan City. At the same time, 23 branch venues in the region started construction in conjunction with the main venue in the form of video.

The Suyin Industrial Park has started 14 projects with a total investment of 2.75 billion yuan and an annual planned investment of 1.19 billion yuan, involving new energy, new materials, biomedicine and other fields. Among them, the total investment of the new energy storage industry chain project of Aoneng Ruila sodium salt is 2 billion yuan, and the first phase investment is 800 million yuan, covering a total area of 223 acres. The output value can reach 4-5 billion yuan. Compared with traditional lead-acid batteries, sodium-salt batteries have the advantages of high safety, long service life, low maintenance costs, wide application fields and low environmental impact. A key industry and the "three new" industries in Yinchuan are arranged and deployed. The implementation of the project will help optimize and upgrade the industrial structure of the park, promote the innovative development of the new energy storage industry, and provide solid industrial support and strong development momentum for accelerating the construction of a demonstration city for ecological protection and high-quality development in the Yellow River Basin.

The Ningdong branch is located at the construction site of the 300,000-ton MDI separation project of Wanhua Chemical (Ningxia) Co., Ltd. The second batch of 40 major projects started in a centralized manner, with a total investment of 43.2 billion yuan and an annual planned investment of 3.55 billion yuan. Among them, there are 37 industrial projects with an annual planned investment of 3.4 billion yuan, accounting for 92.5% and 95.8% respectively. By the end of April, an investment of 4 billion yuan had been completed, with an investment completion rate of 20%, 4.2 percentage points higher than the same period last year. At the same time, it has planned to reserve 11 major projects with a total investment of 145 billion yuan and 11 good projects, involving new materials and clean energy.

Among them, the 300,000-ton MDI separation project of Wanhua Chemical (Ningxia) Co., Ltd. is located in the modern coal chemical industry zone of Ningdong Base, with a total investment of 500 million yuan and an area of 236 acres. It adopts the world's leading independent research and development technology, and mainly builds separation Towers, rectification towers, tank farms and other production devices and supporting auxiliary facilities. The annual planned investment is 200 million yuan, and it will be completed and put into operation by the end of 2023, with an annual output of 183,000 tons of polymerized MDI, 116,700 tons of pure MDI and other products, with an annual sales income of 4.4 billion yuan.

Tao Shaohua, Deputy Secretary of the Party Working Committee and Director of the Management Committee of Ningdong Base, introduced that Wanhua Chemical, the main body of the construction, is a domestic leading enterprise and an internationally renowned enterprise. The MDI project adopts the world's leading independent research and development technology, which will boost the construction of a hundred billion level in Ningxia. High-performance fiber industry cluster to create "China Spandex Valley". Relying on resource advantages and industrial foundation, Ningdong Base has sorted out and planned nine sub-industry chains including coal-to-liquids, coal-based olefins, coal-to-ethylene glycol, and photovoltaic hydrogen energy. There are 11 major projects with a total investment of 145 billion yuan, such as the entire industry chain of fiber and spandex, Taifeng Platinum Adiponitrile and high-end new materials, as well as a batch of Hyosung 23,000 tons of carbon fiber, National Energy Comprehensive Energy Center, etc. good project.