China Petroleum & Chemical Corporation (Sinopec) announced a new milestone in H₂ mobility at the High-quality Development Promotion Conference for Modern Industrial Chain of H₂ Energy Application hosted by Sinopec in Nanjing. Three H₂-powered logistics vehicles of different models successfully completed a 1,500-kilometer journey from the Qingwei Integrated Energy Station in Qingpu District, Shanghai. The route followed the Yangtze River through five provinces and municipalities—Shanghai, Jiangsu, Anhui, Jiangxi, and Hubei—before the vehicles arrived at the Zhijiang Service Area South Station in Yichang, Hubei, refueling at six Sinopec H₂ stations along the way.

The journey marked another milestone for Sinopec. It follows earlier long-distance, cross-regional H₂ logistics tests along two H₂ corridors, the Beijing-Shanghai Corridor and the Western Land-Sea Corridor, built on Sinopec's extensive energy station network. To date, Sinopec has launched five intercity H₂ corridors: Beijing-Tianjin, Chengdu-Chongqing, Shanghai-Jiaxing-Ningbo, Jinan-Qingdao and Wuhan-Yichang.

To further integrate H₂ mobility across eastern and western regions, Sinopec has connected the Shanghai-Jiaxing-Ningbo and Wuhan-Yichang intercity corridors through the Yangtze River H₂ corridor. The company also plans to extend the network to the Chengdu-Chongqing corridor, fully establishing the Yangtze River H₂ axis and enabling more H₂-powered vehicles to travel on highways with confidence.

Sinopec continues to position itself as China's leading H₂ enterprise. It now has a H₂ production capacity of 4.45 MMtpy. The company also operates the nation's first industrial-scale seawater-to-H₂ project at Qingdao Refinery, along with a 100-kW solid oxide electrolysis cell (SOEC) pilot at Zhongyuan Oilfield.

The 30,000-tpy Ordos integrated wind-solar H₂ project in Inner Mongolia supplies H₂ for coal chemical decarbonization. Meanwhile, the 100,000-tpy Ulanqab integrated wind-solar H₂ project will deliver China's first large-scale, cross-provincial, long-distance pure H₂ pipeline.

In H₂ mobility, Sinopec now operates 146 H₂ stations and 11 supply centers. These cover all "3+2" H₂ fuel cell pilot city clusters, making Sinopec the world's largest H₂ station operator.

Looking ahead, Sinopec will align with the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission (SASAC) through its 'H₂ Highway' initiative. The company will leverage its national H₂ corridors to build refueling networks along highways, activate the H₂ economy, and pioneer sustainable business models to drive high-quality growth of the industry.