CRI英语听力2013年02月（WORD文本）：500-MILLION-BENEFIT-FROM-NATURAL-GAS-IN-CENTRAL-ASIA.doc

1、高考资源网（） 您身边的高考专家Chinas first transnational natural gas pipeline, which runs from Central Asia into China, is reported to have benefited nearly 500-million Chinese people.The pipeline, which is constructed by China National Petroleum Corporation, has so far transmitted 45-billion cubic meters of natu

2、ral gas.In an exclusive interview with CRI, CNPCs general manager Zhou Jiping explains top quality gas has benefited half a billion people since completion of the project in 2009.This pipeline has been connected with Chinas two West-East gas lines. One of them has been extended to southern Guangzhou

3、 and Hong Kong. It is in the interests of environmental protection to exploit natural gas. We plan to transform Chinas energy structure by using more clean and low-carbon energy such as natural gas.The natural gas pipeline, which is more than 18-hundred kilometers in length, stretches from the borde

4、r of Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan in the west.It passes through Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan and enters China at Horgos Port in northwest Xinjiang.The second pipeline linking China and Central Asia is now under construction.It is expected to transmit 25-billion cubic meters of natural gas to China every year.Statistics show that natural gas makes up 5 percent of the countrys total energy consumption, far below the 24 percent in developed countries. 高考资源网版权所有，侵权必究！