China

Population (World Bank): 1,406,585,000 (2025)

Metal/Ore Exports (% of Total Merchandise Exports, World Bank): 1.5% (2024)

Petroleum Production (Million barrels per day, EIA): 5,322 Mb/d (2024)

Human Development Index (World Rank, UNDP): 78

2021 Resource Governance Index Score (NRGI): 55/100

EITI Status: None

Link to key economic information (Atlas of Economic Complexity)

Policy documents that include oil and gas local content relevant provisions:

• TSG 07-2019 Regulation for Production and Filling Licensing of Special Equipment, 2019

• The Government Procurement Law of the People's Republic of China, 2002

• Regulation of the People's Republic of China on the Exploitation of Offshore Petroleum Resources in Cooperation with Foreign Enterprises, 2001

• Regulations of the People's Republic of China on Exploitation of On-shore Petroleum Resources in Cooperation with Foreign Enterprises, 2001

Local Content Relevant News:

• March 2026 - Construction begins on Asia's largest cylindrical "offshore oil and gas factory". Aimed at significantly improving the level of self-sufficiency of my country's deep-water ultra-large oil and gas equipment

• January 2026 - Tarim Oilfield: Standardization reduces costs, digitalization improves efficiency, and lean management breaks through bottlenecks.

• December 2025 - CNPC hits milestone in CCUS project

• October 2025 – China challenges India's EV, auto PLI schemes at WTO over trade rules

• August 2025 - China's renewable energy expansion continues with 114 overseas facilities bypass trade restrictions

• July 2025 - China's first domestically developed integrated underground and surface dynamic simulation engine software released

• November 2024 - Taiwan axes offshore wind local content rules to settle WTO row with EU

• October 2024 - Innovation-driven efforts to build "three first-class" standards

• August 2024 - BlueFloat CEO says Taiwan must 'strike right balance' over floating wind local content

• July 2024 - EU hits Taiwan with WTO complaint over offshore wind local content rules

• May 2024 - A Chronicle of Technological Innovation's Role in the Transformation and Upgrading of China's Petroleum Equipment Manufacturing Business

• March 2024 - China and US in green trade war of words as Beijing slams 'discriminatory' clean tech law in WTO complaint

• January 2024 - Special Report on China National Petroleum Corporation's Aims for World-Class Excellence and High-Quality Development

• September 2021 - China's Zhenhua Oil seeks tie-up with local firm for first gas terminal - sources

Analysis and Case Studies:

• Ulrich Hansen (2020) - The effects of local content requirements in auction schemes for renewable energy in developing countries: A literature review

• Joanna Lewis (2014) - The Rise of Renewable Energy Protectionism: Emerging Trade Conflicts and Implications for Low Carbon Development

• United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (2014) - Local Content Requirements and The Green Economy

• Jan-Cristoph Kuntze (2012) - Local Content Requirements and the Renewable Energy Industry - A Good Match?

• Zhen-yu Zhao (2011) - Comparative assessment of performance of foreign and local wind turbine manufacturers in China

• Qiang Wang (2010) - Effective policies for renewable energy—the example of China's wind power—lessons for China's photovoltaic power