Recently, the “Fujian Province Hydrogen Energy Industry Innovation Medium and Long-Term Development Plan (2025–2035)” (referred to as the Plan) was officially released. The Plan proposes focusing on advancing the use of green methanol and green ammonia in ships, scaling up the adoption of hydrogen fuel cell vessels, and accelerating the construction of infrastructure such as hydrogen-based marine fuel refueling, as well as hydrogen energy application scenarios in ports and ships.
The Plan outlines that from 2025 to 2030, Fujian Province will enter the initial development phase of its hydrogen energy industry. During this period, the province aims to establish 1 to 3 pilot demonstration projects for hydrogen-based green marine fuel refueling ports, build 50 hydrogen refueling stations of various types, and create 10 operational demonstration lines in ports, industrial parks, or urban areas to achieve large-scale commercial hydrogen energy applications. Priority will be given to green methanol projects for marine fuel, with the hydrogen energy industry’s total annual output value exceeding 60 billion yuan. From 2030 to 2035, Fujian will enter a rapid growth phase for its hydrogen energy industry, marked by comprehensive improvements in scale, quality, and efficiency. The province aims to achieve an annual production capacity of 100,000 tons of green hydrogen and 1 million tons of hydrogen-based green fuels, with green hydrogen accounting for over 40% of the province’s hydrogen supply. By then, Fujian will become a key green hydrogen and hydrogen-based fuel supply base, transportation hub, and refueling center along the southeastern coast, with an industrial system covering diverse applications such as transportation, energy storage, and industry, and an annual total output value exceeding 300 billion yuan.
To achieve these goals, the Plan proposes fully leveraging hydrogen energy’s diverse application potential and utilizing clean energy resources to promote synergy between hydrogen energy and industries such as power, petrochemicals, oil and gas distribution, metallurgy, and transportation in Fujian. This will involve creating several hydrogen energy industrial clusters and specialized industrial zones. Key initiatives include advancing ammonia-based hydrogen storage technology for large-scale, long-distance transportation; supporting organic liquid hydrogen storage, solid-state hydrogen storage, and related material and component manufacturing; and building hydrogen energy infrastructure centered around integrated hydrogen refueling stations. The Plan encourages repurposing existing gas stations for hydrogen refueling, piloting new hydrogen production technologies, and prioritizing dedicated hydrogen refueling stations for logistics, ports, industrial parks, and sanitation. Hydrogen-based green fuel refueling centers will be established in national ports such as Fuzhou Port and Xiamen Port, with a focus on green methanol and green ammonia for ships and exploring sustainable aviation fuel refueling. In the application sector, particularly transportation, the Plan promotes large-scale adoption of hydrogen fuel cell vehicles, ships, and construction machinery, establishing hydrogen energy demonstration transport lines to drive industrial clustering of key hydrogen fuel cell materials and components.
The Plan emphasizes leveraging Fujian’s coastal advantages and innovation leadership to build a distinctive coastal hydrogen energy economic corridor. Fuzhou and Xiamen will serve as core hubs to drive the development of fuel cell vehicles, component manufacturing, and hydrogen fuel power generation equipment in coastal cities such as Putian, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, and Ningde. The corridor will strengthen infrastructure such as hydrogen production plants, hydrogen purification, and hydrogen-based marine fuel refueling, as well as hydrogen energy applications in ports and ships.
The Plan also proposes implementing a hydrogen energy industry chain cultivation project, leveraging leading enterprises to drive hydrogen supply and consumption. It encourages central enterprises based in Fujian and key provincial enterprises to expand into hydrogen energy through investments, acquisitions, equity participation, and restructuring. The Plan prioritizes industrialization of core equipment such as hydrogen fuel cell vehicles, ships, and construction machinery; hydrogen fuel cell combined cooling, heating, and power systems; outdoor mobile/fixed fuel cell power generation systems; hydrogen energy storage power station core equipment; hydrogen production rectifier power supplies; high-efficiency, low-energy-consumption water electrolysis hydrogen production equipment; seawater-based direct hydrogen production without desalination; low-temperature, low-pressure ammonia synthesis and ammonia-to-hydrogen equipment; hydrogen refueling facility core equipment; and hydrogen storage and transportation equipment.
Additionally, the Plan supports advancing the Jiageng Innovation Laboratory’s national pilot project for island-based green hydrogen integrated energy applications. It encourages renewable energy-based hydrogen production demonstrations, explores hydrogen-based green marine fuel synthesis and refueling pilot projects to drive the shipping industry’s low-carbon transition, and promotes fuel cell ship demonstrations in inland waterways and coastal areas.
