| With the continuous adjustment of the industrial structure in recent years, the rapidadvance of urbanization and people’s increasing will of using clean energy, China’s demandfor natural gas grows rapidly. However, due to the late start of the development of China’snatural gas industry, the corresponding theoretical system and laws and regulations are notperfect, still exist in the current development of China’s natural gas industry such as theproduction base of reverse distribution and consumption centers highlight the absence of afavorable price protection, scarcity of quality resources, natural gas processing and utilizationof the lack of effective convergence mechanisms, dependence on foreign natural gascontinues to increase, the market gas uneven seasonal and market development is notbalanced geographical problems. The face of the increasingly prominent contradictionbetween supply and demand as well as drawbacks affect the development of the industry, inorder to ensure the healthy and orderly development of China’s natural gas industry, to ensurenational energy security, the need for accurate showing the pattern of China’s natural gassupply and demand market situation, further analysis of relevant data, select the appropriatethe prediction model of China’s natural gas supply and demand scientific prediction, scientificpredictions based on an accurate assessment of the gap between supply and demand ofnatural gas in China, and then combined with the related factors in the formulation andimplementation of the development strategy for the future of China’s natural gas industry.From the result of supply and demand forecasts, as time goes by, the gap of China’snatural gas supply and demand will become increasingly large. The next period of time, thegeneral idea of the of China’s natural gas industry development should be to ensure that thedomestic demand and ensure national energy security goals, continue to increase investmentin exploration and development, and improve the level of protection of resources; activelypromote the construction of the pipe network, and constantly improve the layout of the pipe network; market oriented, and gradually improve the natural gas pricing mechanism;establish a sound system of laws and regulations, and promote the coordinated developmentof industry; strengthen international cooperation to diversify its gas supply channels; increaseresources strategic reserve to resist the energy crisis. |