Under the situation of gradual and stable economic development, China's energy transformation has made obvious progress. In 2016, the country's total energy consumption was 4.36 billion tons of standard coal, an increase of only 1.4 percent over the same period last year, ensuring the needs of national economic development with a relatively low growth rate of energy consumption; the energy consumption structure was further optimized, and the proportion of non-fossil energy consumption reached 13.3 percent, an increase of 1.3 percentage points over the same period last year; however, China's energy transformation is a long-term process, and we must proceed from China's national conditions, to examine and drive the energy transition in our country. In the current energy crisis, the development and use of new fuels has become the focus of energy transition.

Alcohol-based fuel is an important foundation for China to promote energy production and consumption revolution and realize green and low-carbon replacement of main energy. The goal of increasing the proportion of primary energy by 10% is a long way to go. "China's 1.37 billion population, according to the total energy consumption last year, now covers more than 0.4 billion in the preliminary area, that is, the current alcohol-based fuel market supply can only cover the needs of 1/5 of the country's population, and 4/5 of the market needs to be developed with unlimited potential.

Under the high market demand, our alcohol-based fuel industry has ushered in rapid development. However, due to insufficient preparation in the early stage and the lag in the construction of national standards, the development of alcohol-based fuels has been restricted and constrained. In order to better promote the development of the industry, the alcohol-based fuel alliance continues to advise the relevant departments of the state, and strive to alcohol-based fuel into the industry development of formal. With this nationwide environmental protection action, the alcohol-based fuel industry has won a good opportunity for industry development. For the national energy, the major adjustment of the coal-fired system and the wave of the transformation and elimination of coal-fired boilers nationwide have begun to promote the construction of alcohol-based fuel test projects in various regions, pointing out the market direction for the next development of alcohol-based fuels.

The National Energy Administration to promote the construction of alcohol-based fuel demonstration project is to further explore the way for the alcohol-based fuel market. For the next step of development, the relevant person in charge of national energy revealed that the first is to take the development of alcohol-based fuels as an important measure to deal with air pollution, incorporate it into the environmental protection strategy, and clarify its positioning and role in protecting the ecological environment; the second is to establish a sound industrial system, Research and establish a specialized raw material supply system and operating mechanism, introduce alcohol-based fuel pollutant emission standards, and carry out standard system construction; the third is to improve the policy support system, incorporate the use of alcohol-based fuels into the management of the energy industry, establish a priority utilization mechanism and an efficient management system, and introduce terminal subsidy policies and fiscal and tax preferential policies to promote the overall development of the domestic alcohol-based fuel industry.

Alcohol-based fuel is a clean alternative energy source. The only resistance in market promotion is the consideration of its safety. In fact, the main raw material of alcohol-based fuel is monohydric alcohol. For example, methanol (Methanol,CH3OH) is the simplest saturated monohydric alcohol with CAS number 67-56-1, molecular weight 32.04, boiling point 64.7 ℃, colorless and volatile liquid with alcohol smell. Flammable, its vapor and air can form an explosive mixture. In case of open flame and high heat, it can cause combustion. Therefore, many people treat all products called alcohol-based fuels as hazardous chemicals and various conflicts. In fact, under the new technology and production conditions, the indicators of alcohol-based fuels simply fail to meet the national standards for hazardous chemicals. The new alcohol-based fuel, improved methanol volatile characteristics, volatile in normal use, flash point of more than 60 degrees, only flammable and non-explosive, clean, environmentally friendly, energy-saving and safe, is the preferred product of alternative fuels.

The transformation of energy strategy is related to the direction and speed of the country's future economic development. Under the trend of giving priority to the development of environmental protection economy in the future, alcohol-based fuel will be the leading energy for the development of environmental protection economy, and will further replace the proportion of traditional fossil energy in the energy structure. Driven by the dual factors of national policies and market demand, the road of alcohol-based fuels in the energy industry will definitely go farther and farther, and wider and wider!