The volume of LPG supplied to households had fallen to 4.9 million tonnes in 2021 from 6.3 million tonnes in 2011. LPG is still used by 40% of urban residents in Guangdong, 37% in Fujian, 33% in Zhejiang and 25% in Jiangxi compared with just 9% in Hebei, the province surrounding Beijing and Tianjin. Most provinces still have a few million urban residents using LPG, with the largest concentrations in the south in Guangdong (26 million) and in the Lower Yangtze region in Zhejiang (11 million) and Fujian (5 million). Some 102 million urban residents were still using bottled LPG in 2021 but that was also down from 161 million residents in 2011 (a compound annual decline of 5%). The total volume of gasworks gas supplied to residential customers had shrunk to just 430 million cubic metres in 2021 down from 2.4 billion cubic metres in 2011 (compound annual decline of 16%). More than half of the remaining residents using gasworks gas were in the province of Liaoning (2.4 million) with smaller numbers in Sichuan, Jilin, Guangxi, Heilongjiang, Shanxi, Gansu and Inner Mongolia. In contrast, the number of urban residents supplied with gas manufactured from coal in a gasworks had fallen to less than 5 million in 2021 from 27 million in 2011 (a compound annual decline of 16%). Urban households were supplied with more than 41 billion cubic metres of gas in 2021 up from 13 billion cubic metres in 2011 (compound growth of 12%). The number of urban residents supplied with natural gas had grown to 442 million by the end of 2021 from 190 million in 2011 (compound annual growth of almost 9%). Gas supply was available to 548 million urban residents in 2021, up from 378 million in 2011 and 216 million in 2001 ("China statistical yearbook", NBS, 2022).īut the number of residents supplied with natural gas has grown even faster as utilities have switched millions of households from bottled LPG and manufactured coal gas or gasworks gas. Gas was supplied to 98% of residents in urban areas by the end of 2021, up from 92% in 2011 and 60% in 2001, according to the National Bureau of Statistics ( NBS).
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