The first set of production equipment with an annual output of 100,000-ton fuel ethanol was built up and put into operation recently, indicating that China is already capable of setting up large set of equipment for fuel ethanol production with the technology of its own intellectual property rights.

As reported this set of equipment is now running quite well and the products turned out to have reached the world advanced level as it has adopted many such technologies of patent rights as thermo-coupling rectification and selective absorption, etc. that are sophisticated in the world. It has thus facilitated China with strong technical support to compete in the global market in fuel ethanol production.

(People's Daily 05/08/2001)