Ministry of Agriculture announced that 60million rural households will use biogas until 2015

According to the information office of Ministry of Agriculture: Ministry of Agriculture issued "development plan of agricultural biomass energy industry (2007-2015)",proposing the developing targets as followed : Until 2015 the total number of rural households using biogas will be up to around 60 million, with an annual biogas production capacity of 23.3billion cubic meters ; over 8000 large-scale raising farms and biogas projects of livestock zones will be built up, which will supply 670million cubic meters of biogas.

Meanwhile a group of application model stations of straw curing fuel and central gas supply station of straw gasification will be set up, utilizing marginal lands to moderately develop energy crops, satisfying the demand of liquefied fuel material of the country.