On December 26, the People's Government of Jingbian County, Yulin City, Shaanxi Province, issued the Information Announcement of the Environmental Impact Report of Xinyao Project with an Annual Output of 125000 Tons of High Purity Silicon and 150000 Tons of Industrial Silicon (Draft for Comments).
The announcement said that according to the provisions of the Law of the People's Republic of China on Environmental Impact Assessment and the Measures for Public Participation in Environmental Impact Assessment, the Environmental Impact Report of Xinyao Project with an Annual Output of 125000 Tons of High Purity Silicon and 150000 Tons of Industrial Silicon (draft for comments) had been compiled. The publicity period is from December 26, 2023 to January 9, 2024 (10 working days) .
The project , with a total investment of 14.2 billion yuan , is located in the Economic and Technological Development Zone of Yangqiao Town, Jingbian County, Yulin City, Shaanxi Province, covering an area of 136.5121 hectares. The construction mainly includes the construction of a new project with an annual output of 125,000 tons of high-purity crystalline silicon and 150,000 tons of industrial silicon, supporting the construction of a production workshop with an annual output of 150,000 tons of industrial silicon, as well as public works, auxiliary works and auxiliary facilities and equipment.
It is reported that the first EIA announcement of the project was made on September 15, 2023. On November 16, Shaanxi Yulin Jingbian Xinyao New Materials Co., Ltd. and Shandong Xinfa Group Co., Ltd. formally signed a contract. According to
the data, Jingbian Xinyao New Materials Co., Ltd. was established on March 8, 2023, located in Jingbian County, Yulin City, Shaanxi Province, and its legal representative is Zhao Zhenhua. Its business scope includes: research and development of new material technology; manufacturing of special electronic materials; sales of special equipment for semiconductor devices; manufacturing of non-metallic mineral products; sales of non-metallic minerals and products; sales of synthetic materials; and smelting of common non-ferrous metals.
Xinfa Group is a modern large-scale private enterprise group which integrates power generation, heating, alumina, electrolytic aluminium, aluminium intensive processing, high-end chemical industry, environmental protection building materials and modern agriculture. In 2022, the group realized business income of 268.1 billion yuan and realized profits and taxes of 27.8 billion yuan. Over the years, Xinfa Group has responded to the call of the national "double carbon" strategy, taking green and low carbon as the development direction, laying out the new energy industry in advance, utilizing high-quality light resources in Xinjiang, and planning to invest 4.8 billion yuan to build 880 MW source-network-load storage integration project; in Shandong, it plans to invest 9.4 billion yuan to build 1.34375 million kilowatt wind power project. At present, it is investing 600 million yuan to build a 150 MW distributed photovoltaic power generation project on the roof of the existing plant, which can generate 165 million kilowatt-hours of solar energy annually.